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Title: QSA Medals
Post by: grah72 on Monday 18 February 08 21:50 GMT (UK)

Hi,
     I beleive my grandfather John Marston gained a QSA Medal while serving in the 14th Hussars. He later returned to England and transferred to the AOC and went to Gibralter where he died in 1907.
      I am looking for details about him or the medal.
                  Regards
                            Graham.

Title: Re: QSA Medals
Post by: scrimnet on Tuesday 19 February 08 00:10 GMT (UK)

Best place to start for cav in the Boer War, is Kev Asplins excellent site....

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/kevinasplin/home.html

BTW I'm a Graham, my grandfather was a cavalryman in the Boer War, and I found some int on him on Kev's site!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: QSA Medals
Post by: scrimnet on Tuesday 19 February 08 00:12 GMT (UK)

Here you go rank and number...

3668    Private    Marston    J    14th Hussars

That can now lead you to WO 97 at Kew and his attestation papers... :D

Title: Re: QSA Medals
Post by: km1971 on Tuesday 19 February 08 05:47 GMT (UK)

Hi Grahams

Save yourself a trip. The QSA roll to regular cavalry are on Ebay for £2.99.

3668 Private J Marston 14th Hussars awarded QSA with clasps for Tugela Heights and Relief of Ladysmith. Roll says “Home 26 April 1900. Transferred to AOC”.

He is not on http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Databases/BoerDetailed/index.html so he may have been invalided home sick, as they need all the mounted men they could find after the relief.

If he died in service his papers should have been destroyed 20 years after his death. Otherwise they may still be in WO97. But I take it you have some details anyway.

Ken
(son of a Graham)