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AussieGaz
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Re: The British South Africa Company Medal Roll - Free lookups offered
« Reply #75 on: Wednesday 30 September 09 05:26 UTC (UK) »
My Great Grandfather - Donald Alexander Clark went up to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) in 1890 with the British South Africa Police and we believe and that his service number might have been 157 according to Col AS Hickman. This we are not sure about.
Subsequently, we have discovered that he was definitely mentioned as having been with the Gwelo Volunteers (Troop Sergent Major) and got the above medal in 1896 (page 83 of B 4/3/3)according to research done by my late father in Harare in 1963, as the recipient's contact details match up with his father in Mintlaw, Scotland.
Could you please let me know if he got any clasps added to the medal at all.
He then left with the Protectorate Regiment for the Relief of the Siege of Mafeking.
Many thanks
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Shaw (Tullyorior, Co. Down, Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Clark (Mintlaw, Scotland, South Africa)
Moodie (Warminster, Wiltshire, South Africa)
Whitfield (Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Ellis (Mafeking, South Africa)
Hanbury-King (Kent/Surrey, South Africa)
Whitehouse (UK)
AussieGaz
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Re: The British South Africa Company Medal Roll - Free lookups offered
« Reply #76 on: Wednesday 30 September 09 05:41 UTC (UK) »
Hi Lister

My Great Grandfather - Donald Alexander Clark went up to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) in 1890 with the British South Africa Police and we believe and that his service number might have been 157 according to Col AS Hickman. This we are not sure about.
Subsequently, we have discovered that he was definitely mentioned as having been with the Gwelo Volunteers (Troop Sergent Major) and got the above medal in 1896 (page 83 of B 4/3/3)according to research done by my late father in Harare in 1963, as the recipient's contact details match up with his father in Mintlaw, Scotland.
Could you please let me know if he got any clasps added to the medal at all.
He then left with the Protectorate Regiment for the Relief of the Siege of Mafeking.
Many thanks 

 

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Shaw (Tullyorior, Co. Down, Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Clark (Mintlaw, Scotland, South Africa)
Moodie (Warminster, Wiltshire, South Africa)
Whitfield (Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe)
Ellis (Mafeking, South Africa)
Hanbury-King (Kent/Surrey, South Africa)
Whitehouse (UK)
peterben
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Re: The British South Africa Company Medal Roll - Free lookups offered
« Reply #77 on: Monday 16 November 09 02:18 UTC (UK) »
Can you please look up any details about my great uncle on the Medal roll?- Henry Lawrence Bernstein. He may well be listed as "Harry" rather than "Henry", because he is listed on the list of witnesses for the Jameson trial as "Harry L. Bernstein" (born Melbourne 1872) and also on the website - http://www.dnw.co.uk/medals/auctionarchive/viewspecialcollections/itemdetail.lasso?itemid=65459 - his 2 medals (Maxim Company and British South Africa Company) sold at auction last September for 1500 pounds. We (the family) lost contact with him, and I want to find out what subsequently happened (have info for 1936) and when/where in UK he died. Made difficult by fact he assumed new name of "Henry Lawrence" around WW1 and then took on various names.aliases as well.
But if you have any info you can glean from the BSACo. Medal roll, that would be a great help.
Thanks and regards
Peter Benson
PS _ I have modified this message 7 hours after posting (made a mistake) - PLEASE read again (initially gave wrong surname to look up - should be "Bernstein")
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