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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 630

(x) Kitchener's Fighting Scouts

Kitchener's Fighting Scouts were formed in December 1900 to fight in the Transvaal. Commanded by the legendary frontiersman, Johan Wilhelm Colenbrander - Rhodes' guide into Rhodesia and one of the few men to have killed a lion with his bare hands - their reputation as ferocious opponents, hard riding and drinking toughs made them feared in the Transvaal. Their clashes and fights with General Christiaan F. Beyers and his Commando were one of the epic features of the Guerilla War. No other Irregular unit had such a fine record for the capture of convoys and prisoners.

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (111 Tpr: R. Carmichael. Kitchener's F.S.), minor edge nicks, nearly very fine

R. Carmichael initially served with 1st Kitchener's Fighting Scouts and was discharged on 15 August 1902, whilst attached to the British South Africa Police, Bechuanaland Protectorate Division; sold with Medal & clasp verification.

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