Orders, Decorations and Medals

Renamed or otherwise defective Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902 Medals (5): no clasp (6242 Tpr. E. C. Fotescue, 34th Coy. Imp. Yeo.); no clasp (7030 Cpl. Noandala, 1st K.A.R.); 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Wittebergen (11389 Tpr. S. P. S. Abbott, 62nd Coy. 14th Bn. I.Y.); 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg No. 1 R.S.M. A. Ritchie, Neylan’s O.R.S.); 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wepener, Wittbergen (2331 Pte. A. B. Baylor, Cape Mtd. Rifles); tailor’s copy clasps for “Orange River Colony”, “Laing’s Nek”, “Belfast” and “Talana”, several of the previous listed calsps also copies, among other defects, from fine to good very fine (5) £120-150

C. E. Fortescue died of enteric at Winburg on 2 January 1901 and is buried there. His portrait photograph appears in The Story of the 34th Company (Middlesex) Imperial Yeomanry by William Corner, published in 1902, and he is named on the Middlesex Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry Memorial in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, unveiled by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts on 10 October 1906.

S. P. S. Abbott was wounded near Bethlehem on 5 July 1900.

A. Ritchie is confirmed on the roll as having been the Regimental Sergeant-Major of Neylan's Orange River Scouts. He also served with the Cape Police, Fuller’s Scouts and as a Corporal in French's Scouts but his Medal was issued off the Cape Police roll as a Private, which may account for it being renamed in the higher rank.

A. B. Baylor’s entitlement to the above listed clasps is confirmed on the roll.