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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 684

(x) General Post Office Staff

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (D. Mackintosh. G.P.O. Staff.), very fine and better

Donald Mackintosh joined the Imperial Telegraph Service on 25 June 1876, later transferring to the colonial service as Telegraphist at Fort Beaufort on 10 June 1881. Posted to King William's Town on 1 December 1891, he was appointed Acting Assistant Surveyor, Eastern District, on 1 July 1894, Acting Surveyor on 1 September 1896 and Surveyor and District Engineer, Eastern District on 1 July 1897. Transferred to the Midland District on 1 July 1898, he served at Headquarters in Port Elizabeth during the war.

The work of the Government Postal and Telegraph Services and Cape Town Police was mentioned in the despatch from Earl Roberts, K.G., G.C.B., published in the London Gazette 16 April 1901:

'These Services have had an immense amount of extra work thrown on them, which they have carried out to my entire satisfaction, and my thanks are due to Mr. Somerset French, C.M.G., and his Staff, for the very capable manner in which the Postal and Telegraph Services have been worked, and to Captain Jenner, Chief of Police, and his subordinates, for their loyal assistance.'


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