QSA Medal role assistance

[cazack]

hello

I am trying to locate the QSA medal role for the following if anyone can help:
G. (George) Souter
2288
Gordon Highlanders
QSA (CC, OFS, JOH, BELF)

I have located a three page service record but cant locate his medal role

Kind regards and thanks in advance

C

[Gordon Craig]

Try the Anglo Boer War site   https://www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/91-research-and-family-history/1851-qsa-medal-roll-index 

Regards,

Gordon

[Aberdeen Medals]

 

The service papers you refer to are for the recipients 'Militia' service with 3rd (Militia) Battalion Gordon Highlanders, in which unit the soldier had the regimental number 2288

 

3(Militia) Bn Gordon Highlanders was not mobilized / deployed as a unit for overseas service during the South African War, however individual member sof the unit did serve overseas during that war, on attachment to one or other of the regular battalions of the Gordon Highlanders

 

Sadly, the regimental clerks had multiple issues in correctly recording the medal and clasps entitlement for George Souter.

 

He is recorded on 2 x separate pages in the regimental medal roll for 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders (ref WO 100/203) as entitled to all 4 x clasps that you have listed, and on a supplementary (later date compiled) page in the same medal roll, is shown as additionally entitled to the 'South Africa 1901' clasp

 

On the first of his entry pages in the medal roll, compiled and signed at Pretoria, 23 August 1901, he is shown as entitled to all 4 x clasps that you listed. In this roll he is shown as 2228 Pte J. SOUTER - note number typo and wrong forename initial - however significantly under remarks it clearly shows him as 'Time Expired 3rd Bn' (that's reference to his Militia origins).

 

On the second entry page in the medal roll, compiled and dated, Glasgow, 17 March 1903, is shown his entitlement to the clasp South Africa 1901, with remark 'Discharge'. In this latter entry he is recorded as 2228 Pte J. SOUTAR.

 

So there you go, three extant records and 3 x different spellings of his surname (which was almost certainly SOUTAR) - with only a single George SOUTER recorded a being born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1877, and another solitary single George SOUTAR born in 1878 (there were no recorded birth of a George Souter or Soutar in Dundee either in 1875 or 1876. 

 

Whether George Soutar was ever physically sent or received his loose dated clasp is not known - but a fairly typical example of one of the many thousands of British Army personnel, who were entitled to loose dated clasps 'after' their original medals and clasps earned before 1901 had been issued

 

As information.

 

Mark

Edited October 31, 2023 by Aberdeen Medals
Births in Dundee 1875-1878