| Smith | James | 1716 | Private | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897. born in the Parish of Ballygarrett near the town of Wexford, Co. Wexford. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the 99th Foot at Chatham on 21 March 1878, aged 21 years, having previously served in the Wexford Militia. With the regiment he served in South Africa, 2 December 1878-7 February 1880. In May of 1879 he was tried by court martial for some misdeed and was sentenced to 25 lashes; his papers indicate he was also several times fined for drunkenness. He was transferred to the 60th Brigade in September 1880 and to the 2nd Battalion Scottish Rifles in July 1881, during which time he served in India, February 1880-April 1884. Smith was transferred to the Army Reserve in June 1884. On his service papers he is stated to have fraudulently re-enlisted into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers; certainly his attestation papers, dated 7 August 1884 make no mention of his previous military service. This oversight doubtless being sorted out, Smith continued in his military service, being stationed in Egypt, October 1885-February 1886 and India, February 1886-March 1894. After a spell at home he was then despatched to South Africa in May 1896. Serving in the Mashonaland Rebellions of 1896-97, he was severely wounded by a gun-shot to the chest at Williams (or Villams) Kraal on 19 September 1896. Smith was one of just 33 officers and men of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers to receive the 'Rhodesia 1896' medal - being part of the Mounted infantry Company (Although it appears from the medal roll that these men were entitled to the Mashonaland clasp, they are not. The confusion stems from some clerk's over zealous use of a check mark in the 'Clasp' column when telling off the Medals). He returned home in June 1897 but was again sent to South Africa in 1900, serving with the Irish Mounted Infantry Company in the Boer War. He was finally discharged from military service on 15 October 1905. SAGS (1) 1879 (1102 Pte., 99th Foot); BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1716 Pte., 1/R. Dub. Fus.); QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte.). DNW December 1993 £450. DNW September 2006 £1,300.
Source: BSACM rolls | Royal Dublin Fusiliers |
| Smith | James Joseph | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0). Jameson Raider. Tpr D Troop MMP.
Source: BSACM rolls | Matabeleland Relief Force |
| Smith | Jno A | 161 | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897.
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Smith | John | 8 | Muleteer | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | No 10 Mountain Battery, RGA |
| Smith | John | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Gwelo Volunteers |
| Smith | Jos | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897.
Source: BSACM rolls | Umtali Volunteer Corps |
| Smith | Joseph | 1984 | Sergeant | BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (1) Rhodesia 1896. 1896: Tpr. E Troop BFF.
Source: BSACM rolls | Bechuanaland Border Police |
| Smith | Lambert | | Trooper | BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Victoria Column |
| Smith | Lionel Ross | 370 | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897.
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Smith | M | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Salisbury Field Force |
| Smith | N | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Colenbrander's Cape Boys |
| Smith | N | | Trooper | BSACM Mashonaland 1897 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Garrison Volunteers |
| Smith | P | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Salisbury Field Force |
| Smith | Patrick | 3667 | Private | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897.
Source: BSACM rolls | (Princess Victoria's) Royal Irish Fusiliers |
| Smith | Percy Geo | | Lieutenant | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Bulawayo Field Force |
| Smith | R | | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | Salisbury Field Force |
| Smith | R A L | | | BSACM Mashonaland 1890 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Smith | R F | | | BSACM Mashonaland 1890 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Smith | Richard Carruthers | | Trooper | BSACM Mashonaland 1890 (1) Rhodesia 1896. 1896: Tpr. Salisbury FF. Colonel A. S. Hickman, in Men Who Made Rhodesia, wrote: 'I feel I must pay a personal tribute to this Police Pioneer for his friendship over many years and the great help he gave me in this research. I therefore quote from the July, 1957, Outpost, in which I wrote his obituary. It contains all the salient points of his career, and there are also his personal narratives to refer to, but his life was so full of incident that it is impossible to do full justice to it. I had the privilege, too, of giving some outline of his story over the Federal Broadcasting Service shortly after his death. Richard Bell Carruthers-Smith, affectionally known as Jock, died on the night of 3rd June, 1957, at Gwelo Hospital. He was nearly 86 years of age, being born on 17th June, 1871, at Amos House (now St. Ninian's College), Moffat, Scotland. His first venture abroad was to Canada, where he was farming for nearly two years until he came over to South Africa (by way of Scotland) on hearing of Rhodes' venture. He was accepted for the British South Africa Company's Police at Kimberley on 15th May, 1890, the youngest member to be attested in the Police at that time. He went to Macloutsie for training and served as a member of D Troop under Captain E. C. Chamley-Turner. His troop garrisoned Fort Tuli when the Pioneer Corps set out for Mashonaland in July, 1890. At Fort Tuli, shortly before the expedition, there was played the first Rugby match ever to be staged on what is now Rhodesian soil (if it can be so described). Teams of Police and Pioneer Corps met in the sandy bed of the Shashi River and played to exhaustion, wearing their heavy issue boots. Jock told me it was the hardest game in which he ever took part. Before that there had been two matches at Macloutsie, in Bechuanaland, between the Company's Police and the Bechuanaland Border Police who were camped nearby. There were no less than nine British internationals in the two sides, and amongst those who played for the Company's Police were the brothers Van der Byl from Capetown. The first match was won by the Company's Police, when Jock scored the only try in the game. The B. B. P. won the return match. In December, 1890, D Troop moved from Fort Tuli up the Pioneer Road towards Fort Victoria, which they reached after many hardships due to heavy rains and flooded rivers. Then they marched on to Fort Charter, arriving early in February, 1891, with 84 men out of a 100 down with fever and riding on the wagons. Here Jock and three others volunteered to be dispatch-riders and were sent to a post-station called Makowrie, about 40 miles from Fort Victoria, where they kept going in spite of exposure, short rations, sick horses and men and, of course, the vile weather. Later Jock was one of a group of Police with Captain Chamley-Turner who from the walls of the Zimbabwe ruins had the unique experience of observing a tribal fight between the two factions of Makaranga. He took his discharge from the Company's Police on 22nd December, 1891, and went to Salisbury, where he was in charge of D Troop soda-water factory, a commercial concern financed by old members of his troop. This was not to his taste, so he returned to Fort Victoria and entered the employ of the Mashonaland Agency Ltd., which had a camp at Fern Spruit at the bottom of the Providential Pass. With this mining and trading concern Jock stayed until the Matabele Raids on the Fort Victoria district in July, 1893. He stayed on as long as he could and was then ordered into laager in Fort Victoria. He did not serve in the Matabele War because someone had to remain to look after the Company's interests. After a short visit to Salisbury in 1894, he set off for Matabeleland in a light spring wagon with 12 oxen, and for the whole journey of 180 miles to Gwelo did not meet a soul, nor did he see anyone between Gwelo and Bulawayo, but at the Shangani battlefield there were bones and skulls lying everywhere. On arrival at old Bulawayo (near the present Sauerstown) he camped inadvertently in a small cemetery. He and his friends were the first men to move over to the new Bulawayo and set up house - a lean to - almost opposite the Standard Bank. He was a foundation member of the Bulawayo Club in 1894 and was later elected a life member. In 1896 he went to the United Kingdom for a holiday, but as soon as he heard of the outbreak of the Matabele Rebellion, booked his passage back to South Africa. He travelled in the same ship as General Sir Frederick Carrington and his staff, and on arrival in Bulawayo joined Grey's Scouts, which later reached Salisbury by forced marches. With this unit he served in the patrol commanded by Captain the Hon. Charles White, Chief Commissioner of Police, which rode to the relief of the settlers invested by rebels at Hartley Hill in July, 1896. I had the honour of accompanying him to this site in 1956, the first time he had seen the fort since he and his comrades charged up to it nearly 60 years before. Towards the end of 1897, after repeated bouts of fever, he left Rhodesia on medical advice, and in 1898 took part in the Klondyke gold rush. For a time he was partner to Major Fred Burnham, the famous American scout who had served in the Matabele War. He returned home to marry Miss Alice Newsham, a nursing sister who had trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and his wife accompanied him back to the Klondyke, where their two sons were born under pioneering conditions; one of his daughters was born in British Columbia, the two youngest in Rhodesia. With his family he returned to Rhodesia in 1903. At one time he was manager of the New Bonsor Mine at Selukwe. In later years his second son managed the same mine for 17 years, from 1932 to 1949. Jock had the deserved reputation of being a most able farmer at Selukwe, Gwanda, and Hartley. In 1927 he was managing the Southill Ranch at Gwanda for the Gwelo Lands and Minerals Co. ; later his farm, Ardlui, at Hartley, was a showplace. He retired to Selukwe, where his wife died in 1951. Since then he had been staying with his sons and daughters at Selukwe, Bulawayo, and Hartley, but mainly with Mrs E. R. Etheridge at Stockwell, near Hartley. He was a life member of the Bulawayo Agricultural Society, and in 1935 had been given the Freedom of the City of Salisbury, where he hoisted the flag at the Occupation Day ceremony in Cecil Square on the 12th September, 1955. During his last days at Gwelo Hospital his only literature was a copy of The Outpost; he was a staunch supporter of the BSAP magazine, to which he had contributed on a number of occasions..He was a man indeed.'. BSACM undated (2) Mashonaland 1890, Rhodesia 1896 (Tpr. Smith, R. C. - B. S. A. C. P.). DNW May 2017 £2,400.
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
| Smith | Robert John | 538 | Trooper | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (1) Mashonaland 1897.
Source: BSACM rolls | British South Africa Police |
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