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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 743

(x) Prince Alfred's Own Cape Artillery

Prince Alfred's Own Cape Artillery was a small volunteer unit, some 126 strong. Raised in 1857, it was mobilised on 16 October 1899 and stationed at various points in Cape Colony. Right Section was attached to General Brabant's Colonial Division in April 1900 and assisted in the relief of Wepener. The day before the relief they had a stiff engagement with the besieging Boers when they swept them off a hillside with shrapnel while under rifle fire. The senior P.A.O.C.A. officer present wrote:

'Our first engagement 24th, lasting six hours. Fired about 160 rounds, men behaved quite splendidly under very heavy rifle fire at close range. No casualties' (Gunners of the Cape, refers). After Wepener, Right Section continued with the Colonial Division and earned its other clasps. The P.A.O.C.A. were concentrated at Kimberley in 1901 and, returning to Cape Town in early 1902, provided the gun carriage and escort for the funeral of Cecil John Rhodes.

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (158 Corpl: A. Gray. Prince Alf: O. Cape A.), unofficial rivets between state and date clasps, good very fine

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