The QSA and Other Medals Meurig Jones Orders and Medals Research Society member #3884 Objective • The objective of this exhibit is to demonstrate that the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 was the centre of Britain’s military history as told through the campaign medal. • The central part of the exhibit is the interactive map of the world showing where the men and women who served in the Second Anglo-Boer War had previous or subsequent service. • There is not an exhaustive list of QSAs and other medals in this presentation, nor is every “character” shown; the Empire created many interesting men and women. • The data is drawn from my on-going work building a new QSA & KSA medal roll index. • For more information or to tell me about a campaign medal or clasp I have missed please e-mail me: [email protected] Copyright 2020 Meurig jones The QSA is found with: • 323 – Orders, Campaign Medals and Commemoratives • 206 – Clasps • From 1854 – Crimean War to 1953 – Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II • Every campaign medal except: General Gordon's Star for the Siege of Khartoum British Red Cross Society Medal for War Service Imperial British East Africa Company's Medal Iraq Active Service Medal Hunza Nagar Badge 1891 British North Borneo Company's GSM 1937- Jummoo and Kashmir Medal 1895 1941 Uganda Star 1897-1898 Air Crew Europe Star Sultan of Zanzibar's Medal India Service Medal 1939-1945 Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Longest service: • Officer: • FM Lord Roberts VC 67 years – Indian Mutiny – 1914 Star • Rt Hon Winston Churchill MP 55 years – Punjab 1898 to WWII, 1953 Coronation • Lt-Col JH Neil NZ Medical Corps 53 years – QSA to WWII, 1953 Coronation • Lt-Col A Martin-Leake RAMC 53 years – QSA to WWI, 1953 Coronation (and a VC and bar) • Admiral Sir Walter Cowan Royal Navy 50 years – Brass River 1895 – WWII • DSO Sudan • DSO bar – North Africa with Commandos - POW • Major VCJ Hollender RAF 45 years – QSA – WWII • WWI – Army, RND, RAF • WWII – RAF MID • Other Rank • Pte A Carter, KSLI 46 years QSA-WWI-WWII (two LSGCs awarded, retired 1951) • Pte T Rogers KRRC 44 years QSA – WWI - WWII • RQMS W Blaing RA 22 years Afghanistan – QSA - MSM Edward VII Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Each red square represents aa location connected to a QSA. 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Copyright 2020 Meurig jones India General Service Medal 1854-1939 1908-1935: 1854-1895: 1895-1902: Afghanistan N.W.F 1919 Burma 1885-7 Perak Relief Of Chitral 1895 North West Frontier 1930-31 Burma 1887-89 Jowaki 1877-8 Punjab Frontier 1897-98 Naga 1879-1880 Waziristan 1921-24 Burma 1889-92 Tirah 1897-98 Umbeyla Sikkim 1888 Waziristan 1919-21 Defence Of Chitral 1895 Waziristan 1894-5 Hazara 1888 North West Frontier 1908 Malakand 1897 Hazara 1891 Chin Lushai 1889-90 Abor 1911-12 Lushai 1889-92 Samana 1897 Pegu Mahsud 1919-20 Persia Samana 1891 Waziristan 1901-2 Mahsud 1921-22 North West Frontier NE Frontier 1891 Burma 1930-32 Bhootan Hunza 1891 1936-1939: Chin Hills 1892-93 Mohmand 1933 Looshai North West Frontier 1936-37 Kachin Hills 1892-93 North West Frontier 1935 North West Frontier 1937-39 Waziristan 1925 Pte 3666 George Wells King’s Own Scottish Malabar 1921-22 Borderers IGS – Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier Clasps in green are known with QSA 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 QSA – CC,OFS,T & KSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Indian Mutiny Medal Examples: Lord Roberts – Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow, Delhi • VC Clasps: • Afghanistan – Kandahar, Kabul, Peiwar Kotal • Kabul to Kandahar Star Delhi • Abyssinia Defence Of Lucknow • IGS 54 – Umbeyla, Looshai, Burma 1885-7 Relief Of Lucknow • QSA - P, D, J, DH, Bf, CC Lucknow • 1914 Star trio Central India Brigadier-General Sir JG Dartnell – Central India • IGS 54 – Bhootan • SAGS – 1879 • Cape of Good Hope GSM – Basutoland • QSA - T, Ta, DoL, LN • Natal Rebellion – 1906 Clasps in green are known with QSA And Col HW Feilden, Imperial Yeomanry…. Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Canada General Service Medal 1866-1870 Clasps: Major-General GT Pretyman RA • Military Secretary to Field Marshal Earl Roberts Fenian Raid 1866 • KCMG Fenian Raid 1870 • CB Red River 1870 • Canada GSM • Afghanistan - Peiwar Kotal, Charasia, Kandahar • Kabul to Kandahar Star • QSA – P, D, CC, SA 1901 and Mjr-Genl Sir RH Buller VC Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones North West Canada Medal Clasps: Major AL “Gat” Howard Saskatchewan • American, early proponent of the machine gun • Served five years US cavalry • Invited to take two Gatling guns by Canadians to suppress 1885 Rebellion • ABW – served Royal Canadian Dragoons, then raised and commanded Canadian Scouts – killed 17-02-1901 • DSO • North West Canada Medal • QSA - J,D,Bf,CC,OFS,SA01 Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Abyssinian War Medal 1867-1868 Lord Roberts • VC • Indian Mutiny - Lucknow, Relief of Lucknow, Delhi • Afghanistan – Kandahar, Kabul, Peiwar Kotal • Kabul to Kandahar Star • Abyssinia • IGS 54 – Umbeyla, Looshai, Burma 1885-7 • QSA - P, D, J, DH, Bf, CC Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Ashanti Ashantee War Medal 1873-1874 Ashanti Star 1896 Ashanti Medal 1900 Clasp: Coomassie 1033 issued to British Army Clasp: Kumassi Domestic G Langley HMS Niobe Two QSA combinations: QSA – no clasp Cpt AF Gordon Gordon Highlanders LSGC • CMG, DSO • IGS – Tirah, Punjab F, R of Chitral • QSA – T, SA01, SA02 and Mjr-Genl Sir RH Buller VC • BWM & VM (Died of wounds 1917 Armr-Sgt JH Bird AOC (with clasp) • QSA - CC,OFS,SA01,SA02 • 1914 trio Sapper 25777 EJ Keely 1st • IGS 1908 – Afghan 1919 Telegraph Division RE Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Natal Rebellion 1906 KwaZulu-Natal Clasp: 1906 South Africa Medal 1877-1879 Clasps: 1877-8-9 1877-8 1878 1878-9 1879 1877 1877-9 WWdeV Caddell Lt WF Fairlie BSAC – L-Cpl Mashonaland Mounted Police Shepstone’s Native Horse QSA & KSA – South Rhodesian Volunteers, QSA – Lt Natal Police, Buller’s Commander-in-Chief’s Bodyguard & ASC Bodyguard Natal – Lt Royston’s Horse and Mjr-Genl Sir RH Buller VC Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Afghanistan Medal 1878-1880 Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 Clasps: Ali Musjid RQMS W Blaing RA – no clasp Peiwar Kotal • Egypt – Tel-el-Kebir Charasia • IGS 54 - Burma 1885-7 Kabul • QSA - CC, OFS, T, SA01 Ahmed Khel • MSM – EVII Kandahar • Khedive’s Star Colour-Sgt T Corbett Commissariat & King’s (Liverpool) – no clasp • Egypt – Tel-el-Kebir • IGS 54 - Burma 1885-7 • QSA – CC, SA02 • Khedive’s Star Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal 1880-1897 Clasps: Colonel EH Dalgety – Basutoland, Bechuanaland Basutoland • SAGS – 1877-8-9 Bechuanaland • QSA - We,W,CC,T, Commanded Cape Mounted Rifles Transkei • KSA William Grimmer Somerset CGHGSM – Pte Cape Police QSA – Cpl Rimington’s Guides KSA – Sgt Western Province Mtd Rifles Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Egypt 1882-1889 Khedive's Star 1882-1891 Clasps: Major HWD Denne, Gordon Highlanders – Tel-el-Kebir, El-Teb_Tamaai, Alexandria 11th July Suakin 1884, The Nile 1884-85 Gemaizah 1888 • QSA – Elandslaagte Kirbekan • Khedive’s Star Abu Klea Killed Elandslaagte 21-10-1899 The Nile 1884-85 Suakin 1884 GWS Bush Egypt – Pte, Medical Staff Corps Suakin 1885 QSA,KSA – Sgt-Mjr RAMC – Tamaai Guards Brigade Field Hospital El-Teb El-Teb_Tamaai Tel-el-Kebir Tofrek Toski 1889 Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones East & West Africa 1887-1900 Clasps: Examples: 1892 1887-8 1893-94 1891-2 Nursing Sister ME Powell – 1897-8 Benin 1897 Witu August 1893 • Royal Red Cross Brass River 1895 Juba River 1893 • QSA – Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Liwondi 1893 Lake Nyassa 1893 Sierra Leone 1898-99 Gambia 1894 Staff Sgt GJ Nosworthy, RAMC – 1898, 1897-98 1898 Benin River 1894 • QSA - OFS,T,TH,RoL,LN 1897-98 1896-98 • KSA Witu 1890 1899 M'wele 1895-96 1900 M'wele 1895 Dawkita 1897 Niger 1897 Copyright 2020 Meurig jones British South Africa Company's Medal 1890-1897 Clasps: Examples: Mashonaland 1890 Mashonaland 1897 Matabeleland 1893 Lt EC Tyndale-Biscoe, RN – all 4 clasps Rhodesia 1896 (one of three issued) • Egypt – Tamaai, Suakin 1884 • QSA – Defence of Ladysmith • Order of the Medjidieh • Khedive’s Star Sold DNW 2014 £30,000 Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones Central Africa East & Central Africa 1897-1899 Central Africa 1891-1898 Clasps: 1898 Clasp: Central Africa 1894-98 Lubwa's Duffadar Wazir Khan, 2nd Hyderabad Lancers – Uganda 1897-98 no clasp • QSA – CC,OFS Uganda 1899 • KSA Cpt CE Collard, Royal Marines • Coronation 1902 Sowar Faiz M Khan, 2nd Hyderabad Lancers – no E&C Africa - Uganda 1897-98 clasp QSA & KSA – RMLI • QSA – CC WW1 • KSA Russian Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class Clasps in green are known with QSA Copyright 2020 Meurig jones The Sudan Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908 Khedive’s Sudan Medal 1910-1922 Clasps: Abu Hamed Katfia Clasps: Atwot 1918 Garjak Nuer The Atbara Khartoum Mongalla 1915-16 Darfur 1916 Bahr-el-Ghazal 1900-2 Nyam-Nyam Nyima 1917-18 Fasher Firket Nyima S Kordofan 1910 Lau Nuer Gedaref Sudan 1897 Sudan 1912 Garjak Dinka Gedid Sudan 1899 Zeraf 1913-14 Nyala Hafir Talodi Mandal Darfur 1921 Jerok Miri Aliab Dinka Common: no clasp, Khartoum, The Atbara Others rare Col BHS Romilly Scots Guards Medals Hafir – 488 to North Staffordshire, 201 earned QSA DSO QSA & KSA But just 4 claps to ASC WW1 Medals Khedive’s Sudan 1896 - Talodi, Nyima Khedive’s Sudan 1910 - S.