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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 683

(x) Frontier Mounted Rifles

Approximately 131 Medals issued to the unit.

'First-rate work has been done by the Frontier Mounted Rifles, a well-trained and excellently equipped body of men, all in the prime of life, and drawn from the eastern border towns of the Cape Colony. They held a position of continual danger, being encamped nearest the enemy. Being born and bred amongst the kopjes which afforded the Boers such easy hiding places, they were acquainted with every nook and corner, and could find their way about them both in daylight and dark. This force, with the Cape Police, helped to keep General Gatacre informed regarding the seething mass of disloyalty that surrounded him' (Creswicke, refers).

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (Capt & Adjt: B. J. Bertenshaw. Frontier M.R.), extremely fine

B. J. Bertenshaw is recorded as commanding the Frontier Mounted Rifles, likely upon the resignation of Captain Puncoy on 30 December 1899 or the departure of Major J. R. Heart on 30 April 1900, when his services were 'disposed with'; sold with copied roll entry confirming Medal & clasp and an issuance date of 8 March 1904.

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Sold for
£290