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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 63

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (1001 Tpr: T. Welsh. Midland M.R.), good very fine

The Midland Mounted Rifles were raised on 1 April 1901 and served until the end of the war. They were given the express purpose of expelling the invaders from the Cape Colony and had several serious clashes with Lotter's Commando. Johannes Cornelius Jacobus 'Hans' Lotter was considered one of the most brutal Boer commanders in the Cape Colony, his men displaying a propensity for indiscipline (Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902, refers). Tracked to Groenkloof and captured following a dawn attack, the Boer commander was later executed with seven of his men (Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O, refers).

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