Guest rmamarshall Posted January 16, 2006 Share Posted January 16, 2006 Dear All,I was bought for Christmas (no smirking, please!) an unnamed Royal Engineer WO's SD tunic, with medal ribbons as follows:BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY'S MEDAL 1890-97QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICAKING'S SOUTH AFRICALooking up the above in Spink's 'British Battles and medals', I have found out that only 4 Royal Engineers were entitled to the South Africa company medal. Does anyone have the medal roll to find the names of those entitled? Given that the chap became a WO pre-WW1 (the tunic I would date to c.1910), it would seem he spent a long time in the engineers and thus one of the four REs originally entitled was probably him. As to whether any / all served in the Boer war could narrow it down further. I would try myself at the PRO, but am a long way from London and it is the sort of info. someone might have knocking around. My next port of call will be the regimental museum.Regards,Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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