Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Four: Corporal G. A. Ohlsen, 12th South African Infantry, late Royston’s Horse and South African Light Horse
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (22874 Tpr: G. A. Ohlsen. S.A. Lt Horse) officially re-impressed; Natal 1906, 1 clasp, 1906 (Pte. G. A. Ohlsen, 2nd Royston’s Horse.); British War and Victory Medals (A/Cpl. G. A. Ohlsen. 12th S.A.I.) generally nearly very fine or better

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (870 Tpr: C. Ohlsen. S.A. Lt Horse) last clasp loose on riband, very fine (5) £300-400

The above were brothers. The latest published transcription of the Natal 1906 medal roll gives a ‘Tpr. C. Ohlson [sic], 2nd Royston’s Horse. Died of Pneumonia, Grey’s Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, 29 July 1906.’ The roll also lists 2 men of the name ‘C. Ohlson’, as well as G. A. Ohlson, as serving with 2nd Royston’s Horse and being entitled to the Natal 1906 Medal with clasp.