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It reminds me of closing time being called in the local pubs. I have this & another one or two odd ones & a boxed set of 35 - I was planning on posting all of them in this fairly low res, although if somebody would like them in higher res so they can use them as stereo cards if they've got a viewer then I'll do that. The size they are appearing on screen is about right - maybe 1/4" longer than the original. Originals or copies would make nice backdrops to medals etc of the war.

Some photos of British troop troops etc during the Anglo-Boer War, this one published by "Underwood & Underwood" (Copyright 1900) is entitled "The dying Bugler's last call - abattlefield incident, Gras Pas, South Africa". Copyright 1900 Although some of these photos are clearly posed, "faked", some are'nt.

I used to play on the Lewisham & Brockley bomb sites as a kid, when I lived in Cranfield Road, Brockley & later when I'd moved to The Old Kent Road as my grandmother still lived in Chalsey Road & I went to school on Hilly Fields. So many of these sites were still around 30 years after the war & there are still some left undeveloped now. I remember walking with my grandmother along Adelaide Avenue when she mentioned that she had walked past the flats we were passing one morning during the war & that bodies were laying all around in the street due to a bomb. They're long lost, but I once found a bullet head & a few pieces of shrapnel just outside a garden in Comerford Road - the rain or something like that must have just shifted them off the soil of the garden & onto the pavement. I think a number of casualties in Lewisham were caused by a V2 landing on a cinema, were'nt they?

I'd guessed you'd have had to - could'nt resist it. What lovely great unique 3R item is lined up waiting for your commutation by the way?

& the reverses - the No. 2 & No. 4 have "PROV Pat" included on the backing plate, I reckon that the No. 2's backing plate ws originally shaped like the other 2, but bits have broken off over time. The actual No. 4 wound stripe has raised lettering on the back, including "....PROV PAT 7342-17 No.... The No. 4 & the inmarked stripes are solid, not hollow backed - I don't know about the No. 2 as I don't want to start prising it off its backing plate.

I have about half a dozen metal wound stripes - here are, from left to right, a No. 2, a No. 4 & an un-numbered one - this looks like it's gilded - perhaps a private purchase one?

Yes please - PM en route..........

Ah yes - join the rest of we Queens Bad Bargains. But every time you seer or hear lights & music in the distance you reach for your non-existent pocket fone & car keys......... Even though you miss the constant adrenalin rush, whenever you think you miss the job - you ponder a bit & then thnk "Nah, well out of it". If the scrotes don't get you the Rubber Heel Squad - sorry, Professional Standards Department / compalints authority or other powerful bodies with no perception of evidence, fairness or real life out there on the streets will........l. Hey, I sound bitter for someone who never got done for anything - it was just hard keeping it that way.

The research came with the 2 medals, so no hard work by me, but there's more to find out no doubt. 8th Lincs War Diary should be worthwhile, fortunately there is fair bit of research already done on the 2 SAI Tedder as I have no knowledge of SA records.

The "Soldiers Died" entry The 8th Lincolns were formed at Lincoln during September 1914 as a Service Battalion of K3, following heavy losses on the Somme, their brigade - 63 Bde of 21 Div transferred to 37 Div. Soldiers Died shows: The battalions last death before 27/4/18 was on 17/4/18 Baxter Charles Joseph 51997 Private 27/4/18 Howe Robert Henry 49703 Private 27/4/18 Turgoose Harry 26283 Private 28/4/18 And of course 2/Lt OS Tedder is shown as 27/4/18 Killed In Action Next death 2/5/18 A total of 8 officers are shown as dead during the war, between 25/9/15 & 31/5/17, 2/Lt OS Tedder is not one of them as he is listed in Soldiers Died as battalion not known 871 Other Ranks are listed as dead. This site: http://www.eebo.freeserve.co.uk/8thbatt.htm shows: 23 - 29 (April 1918)...............Battalion in action at Arras. Casualties - 8 officers and 516 other ranks

"Died on or about 28th April 1917"

3/9/18, "death accepted" by the Army Council.......

Still missing.......& Private Willis later goes missing himself, but presumably survived the war as I can't find him listed in Soldiers Died or on the CWGC site.

"Missing" or "Killed" following an attack on Greenland Hill........

pages 2 & 3....

Sgt Tedder, in hospital in East Dulwich, has heard that his brother has been killed & has contacted the War Office.......

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Her's 2 Lt OS Tedders BWM & some papers

I'd had this a while, never knew what it was until now - I'd assumed that it was Australian, NZ, Canadian infantry.. A bit uninspired for a shoulder title

He was'nt a real copper though - he said "mind how you go" as if he meant it & not with the hint of menace - the unspoken "or else" with which it is properly said.......

And I think there's some kind of family link with Lincs - a quick search on the web threw up a Tedder school in that county, may be something, may be nothing............

OS Tedders papers to follow - I know this stuff can be a pain to read through, but there's a lovely lot of detail here.

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still going, loads of detail

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