Some of my new Victroy Medals

[Noor]

Here is some Victory Medals, what I got this weekend.

1. South Africa bilingual Victroy medal

SPR. W.R. BURNE S.A.C.S.C.R.E

South African Corps of Signals Company Royal Engineers

[Noor]

2. Next South Africa bilingual Victory medal

BURG. P.J.SENEKAL SHUTERLAND KDO.

Sutherland Komandos

From where I can find more information about this unit? Any good link maybe I tried to Google but no luck.

Also what means BURG???

[Guest Darrell]

Also what means BURG???

BURG = BURGHER

a citizen of the Cape Colony or of one of the Transvaal and Free State republics

[Hannibal Rex]

Google it for "Sutherland Commando" and a few results will appear.

Basically he served (apparently) in the Sutherland Commandos, serving in German SW Africa against the Germans.

http://www.imperial-research.net/gswa_oob.htm

Good luck!

[Noor]

Thanks guys for the info!

Which of those namings are more scare? I just need one for my display and actually I recognised just in home that I scooped two SA bilingual ones.

[Hannibal Rex]

I'm not an expert in South African ODM, but I suspect the Kommando medal is rarer (assuming by namings you're asking which unit is rarer). I suppose it depends what unit the sapper served in and so on. I love those regional units though; lots of interesting QSAs out there in that regard. The engineer's medal is probably easier to research though, yes?

[Mervyn Mitton]

Kommando named medals are certainly not as common as the British named units - however, many citizens of Afrikaans background joined for service in WW1. Bi-lingual Victory medals are quite sought after.

At the beginning of the 1st. WW a number of Afrikaans units and the local people around Carnarvon in the Eastern Cape went into open rebellion.The suppression was quite brutal and it is interesting that it was the local colonel of the Carnarvon Commando - an Afrikaaner - who led the local troops against them. He had the DSO for SWA and a sealed OBE for non-specified activities. We later found out it was for the rebellion.

Well done, Noor.