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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 643

(x) Border Horse

The Border Horse - about 200 strong - was raised in Cape Colony in February 1900 and in the forefront of the relief of Wepener. After the relief, the unit continued in the Colonial Division and took part in the advance towards the Brandwater Basin, where Prinsloo and his 4,000 men surrendered. The Regiment was disbanded in June 1901.

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (Capt: A. H. Warren, Border Horse.), good very fine

Albert Henry Warren was born at Stutterheim, Cape Colony on 7 November 1869 and served as a Trooper in the Pioneer Corps in the Mashonaland Expedition of 1890.

During the Second Anglo-Boer War, he enlisted at Kei Road on 9 November 1899, as a Trooper in the 1st Brabant's Horse. Commissioned Lieutenant on 26 November 1899 and promoted to Captain on 28 January 1900, he served in 1st Brabant's Horse at the defence of Wepener. On 28 April 1900, however, he resigned from the unit and on the following day became a Captain in the Border Horse. Having then resigned from the unit in November 1900, he became a Captain in 'A' Squadron of the Stutterheim District Mounted Troops and, later still, a Captain in the Union Defence Force, Reserve of Officers.


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