Solomon | Philip | | | CGHGSM (1) Bechuanaland. CPD1. Native detective
Source: Roll of the CGHGSM | Cape Police |
Solomon | R | | Private | CGHGSM (2) Basutoland Transkei
Source: Roll of the CGHGSM | Cape Town Rangers |
Solomon | R | | Able Seaman | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1879 | HMS Tenedos |
Solomon | R | | Lieutenant | QSA (1)
Source: List of QSAs with the clasp Defence of Kimberley | Kimberley TG |
Solomon | R E | | Sergeant | CGHGSM (1) Transkei
Source: Roll of the CGHGSM | Beaufort West Volunteers |
Solomon | Richard | | | High Commissioner for the Union
479 of 580 awards | Unknown |
Solomon | Richard | | Sir | Legal Adviser. MID LG: 29 July 1902, page: 4835. Source: General Kitchener. 23 June 1902. Re: Final despatch & mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War | Unknown |
Solomon | Richard | | | Born at Cape Town, Oct 18, 1850. He is son of Reverend E Solomon, a missionary in the Transkei territories. He was educated at the SA College, and at St Peter's College, Cambridge (23rd Wrangler), and was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1879. He accompanied Lord Rosmead as Legal Adviser to Mauritius on the Commission of Enquiry in 1886; was Chairman of the Mining Commission; and Member of the Native Law Commission. He entered the Cape Parliament in 1893, as member for Kimberley and Tembuland. In 1896 he was retained with Advocate Wessels to defend the Reform prisoners. He was Attorney-Gen, of the Cape Colony from 1898 to 1900, in which year he received his knighthood. Sir Richard was appointed Legal Adviser to Lord Kitchener, CLC in SA, and to the Transvaal Administration from 1901 to the end of the Boer War, for which services he received the CB He was then appointed Legal Adviser to the Transvaal Administration (1901-2). He represented South Africa at the Delhi Durbar in 1902-3 (gold and silver medals), and has been a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils and Attorney General of the Transvaal since 1902, in which capacity he has had an onerous task to perform in the framing and adapting the laws to the new conditions. He married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend J Walton, and sister of Sir Lawson Walton, KC, MP Their only child, Mary Gwendoline is married to Sir E P C Girouard . | Unknown |
Solomon | Richard | 22727 | Trooper | Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Commander-in-Chief's Bodyguard |
Solomon | Robert Ross | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Western Province Mounted Rifles |
Solomon | S | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Natal Volunteer Transport Service |
Solomon | S | | Driver | QSA (3) DoL Tr LN
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | Natal Volunteer Transport Service |
Solomon | S | | Trooper | CGHGSM (1) Transkei
Source: Roll of the CGHGSM | Willoughbys Horse |
Solomon | S | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Harrismith Volunteer Light Horse |
Solomon | S E | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Tembuland Mounted Rifle Club |
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