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Pair: Lieutenant R. L. Elliott, Loch's Horse, late Trooper, Matabeleland Relief Force, who...
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Pair: Lieutenant R. L. Elliott, Loch’s Horse, late Trooper, Matabeleland Relief Force, who was taken prisoner on the ill-fated Jameson Raid British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. R. Lowens-Elliott. M.R.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut: R. L. Elliott. Loch’s Horse.) slight edge bruises to first, otherwise very fine (2) £800-£1,000 --- Richard Lowens Elliott was born in Hackney, London, around July 1871. He attested into Bechuanaland Border Police and served as a Trooper with ‘G’ Troop, Matabeleland Relief Force that was raised by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson for his ill-planned invasion of the Boer Transvaal Republic. He was captured when Jameson’s outnumbered force was compelled to surrender to the Boers on 2 January 1896. Returning to England, he was commissioned into Loch’s Horse for service in South Africa during the Boer War. Raised by Lord Loch in February 1900, with a combined strength of 220, during their twelve months’ service ‘they shared in the advance from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal as part of the 8th Corps of Mounted Infantry commanded by Colonel Ross of the Durham Light Infantry, the Brigadier being Colonel Henry. The 8th Corps were part of the advance guard or screen to the centre of Lord Roberts’ army, and had a lot of scouting skirmishing in the northward march. Colonel Henry’s men, including the 1st and 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, South Australians, Tasmanians, Lumsden’s Horse, Loch’s Horse, and the 4th Mounted Infantry Regulars, were among the first to cross the Vaal, and had very stiff fighting before the infantry got up, particularly at the mines in the neighbourhood of Vereeniging, about Elandsfontein, and outside Pretoria. Their work was highly praised by the Generals and by the correspondents.’ (The Colonials in South Africa, refers). He died in England on 5 September 1925, aged 59. Sold with copied Boer War medal roll extract and copied extract from the list of prisoners from the Jameson Raid.
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Pair: Lieutenant R. L. Elliott, Loch’s Horse, late Trooper, Matabeleland Relief Force, who was taken prisoner on the ill-fated Jameson Raid British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. R. Lowens-Elliott. M.R.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Lieut: R. L. Elliott. Loch’s Horse.) slight edge bruises to first, otherwise very fine (2) £800-£1,000 --- Richard Lowens Elliott was born in Hackney, London, around July 1871. He attested into Bechuanaland Border Police and served as a Trooper with ‘G’ Troop, Matabeleland Relief Force that was raised by Dr. Leander Starr Jameson for his ill-planned invasion of the Boer Transvaal Republic. He was captured when Jameson’s outnumbered force was compelled to surrender to the Boers on 2 January 1896. Returning to England, he was commissioned into Loch’s Horse for service in South Africa during the Boer War. Raised by Lord Loch in February 1900, with a combined strength of 220, during their twelve months’ service ‘they shared in the advance from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal as part of the 8th Corps of Mounted Infantry commanded by Colonel Ross of the Durham Light Infantry, the Brigadier being Colonel Henry. The 8th Corps were part of the advance guard or screen to the centre of Lord Roberts’ army, and had a lot of scouting skirmishing in the northward march. Colonel Henry’s men, including the 1st and 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, South Australians, Tasmanians, Lumsden’s Horse, Loch’s Horse, and the 4th Mounted Infantry Regulars, were among the first to cross the Vaal, and had very stiff fighting before the infantry got up, particularly at the mines in the neighbourhood of Vereeniging, about Elandsfontein, and outside Pretoria. Their work was highly praised by the Generals and by the correspondents.’ (The Colonials in South Africa, refers). He died in England on 5 September 1925, aged 59. Sold with copied Boer War medal roll extract and copied extract from the list of prisoners from the Jameson Raid.
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