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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 645

(x) Brabant's Horse

The Corps was raised - and took to the field - in the Queenstown-Dordrecht District and was placed under the command of Brigadier-General Sir Edward Yewd Brabant, an experienced soldier who had witnessed extensive service in the 9th Xhosa War and the First Matabele War. In early 1900, the Corps maintained a very prominent part in the clearing of north-east Cape Colony and was heavily engaged in the fighting around Dordrecht.

In Lord Roberts' telegram of 18 February 1900, he mentioned that Brabant 'had attacked Boer positions on the 16th. He gradually closed in on the laager during the day. Fighting lasted from 9 a.m. till dusk. At midnight Captain Flanagan, 1st Brabant's Horse, attacked and took a laager at the point of the bayonet, capturing the stores'. Captain Crallen and Lieutenant Chandler and four non-commissioned officers and men were killed, and five non-commissioned officers and men wounded. On 5 March there was again severe fighting near Dordrecht, in which the Cape Mounted Rifles bore the heaviest share of the losses. Whilst at Aliwal North, on the 11th, Brabant's Horse had three killed and six wounded.

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Wepener, Transvaal, Wittebergen (408 Cpl: G. S. Hope. Brabant's Horse), nearly extremely fine

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£350