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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 700

(x) Johannesburg Mounted Rifles

The Johannesburg Mounted Rifles were raised on 12 December 1900, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel "Bimbashi" Stewart, and operated in his Column. They saw much service on the Natal border in 1901 during Louis Botha's invasion, and later in the Transvaal and Orange Free State where 'down to the close of the campaign they did service which proved them a most useful and well-led body'.

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (40 Tpr: T. Eastland. Johannesburg M.R.), very fine and better

Thomas Eastland attested for the Natal Volunteer Ambulance Corps at Durban on 11 December 1899, before transferring to the Johannesburg Mounted Rifles; sold with copied roll entry and attestation document.

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£120