This example awarded to John Dunmore Killingbeck. Corporal.

Northamptonshire Regiment.

A total of 178,000 medals were awarded to numerous specialist units as well as locally raised units and contingents from India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Medals were also awarded to war correspondents and nurses which set precedents for later wars. Although nurses were awarded the medal they were not issued the clasps to which they were entitled. A small number of bronze medals were issued (without clasp) to bearers and servants in Indian units. The original issue of the QSA depicts Britannia's outstretched had pointing towards the R of AFRICA and bears the dates 1899 - 1900 on the reverse field (just below the AFRICA). Less than 70 of these were issued to Lord Strathcona's Horse who had returned to Canada before the war ended. As the war continued the date was removed and on some medals a 'ghost' of the date can be seen. On the third issue there is no date and Britannia's hand points towards the F..

CAMPAIGN

Anglo - Boer War 1899 - 1902

BRANCH OF SERVICE

British and Imperial Forces..

CLASPS

26 - (Although the maximum recorded for a single medal is 9 to the Army and 8 to the Navy). See Below for full list *

OBVERSE

The Jubilee Bust of Queen Victoria...

REVERSE

Britannia holding the flag and a laurel crown towards a large group of soldiers, with warships offshore. The words SOUTH AFRICA are inscribed round the top.

RIBBON

Red with two narrow blue stripes and a broad central orange stripe.

NAMING

On Rim

DATE

1899.

ISSUED

178,000

METAL

Silver or Bronze.

SIZE

36mm.

* Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Relief of Mafeking, Defence of Kimberley, Talana, Elandslaagte, Defence of Ladysmith, Belmont, Modder River, Tugela Heights, Natal, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Driefontein, Wepener, Defence of Mafeking, Transvaal, Johannesburg, Laing's Nek, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, Belfast, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902.   

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