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British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, no clasp (Trooper J....
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British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, no clasp (Trooper J. Dyson Raaff’s Column.) with contemporary top silver brooch bar (lacking pin), nearly extremely fine £200-£240
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Raaff's Rangers was a unit if Mounted Rifles recruited by Commandant Pieter Johannes Edward Raaff CMG (1849-1893) from the back streets of Johannesburg. Such was its reputation that it was familiarly known as ‘Raaff's Riff-Raff’. It was one of the three columns to enter Matabeleland in 1893. Dyson would have been part of the epic week-long fighting retreat that took place through dense bush in immediate aftermath of the fateful Shangani Patrol. Having run out of food and water within days, they were constantly harassed as they went, with with individuals often being picked off, and sleep almost impossible. Such was the strain of commanding this retreat, that those nominally in change had gone to pieces, and Raaff, who had stepped up in their absence, died a few weeks later.
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Raaff's Rangers was a unit if Mounted Rifles recruited by Commandant Pieter Johannes Edward Raaff CMG (1849-1893) from the back streets of Johannesburg. Such was its reputation that it was familiarly known as ‘Raaff's Riff-Raff’. It was one of the three columns to enter Matabeleland in 1893. Dyson would have been part of the epic week-long fighting retreat that took place through dense bush in immediate aftermath of the fateful Shangani Patrol. Having run out of food and water within days, they were constantly harassed as they went, with with individuals often being picked off, and sleep almost impossible. Such was the strain of commanding this retreat, that those nominally in change had gone to pieces, and Raaff, who had stepped up in their absence, died a few weeks later.
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British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Matabeleland 1893, no clasp (Trooper J. Dyson Raaff’s Column.) with contemporary top silver brooch bar (lacking pin), nearly extremely fine £200-£240
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Raaff's Rangers was a unit if Mounted Rifles recruited by Commandant Pieter Johannes Edward Raaff CMG (1849-1893) from the back streets of Johannesburg. Such was its reputation that it was familiarly known as ‘Raaff's Riff-Raff’. It was one of the three columns to enter Matabeleland in 1893. Dyson would have been part of the epic week-long fighting retreat that took place through dense bush in immediate aftermath of the fateful Shangani Patrol. Having run out of food and water within days, they were constantly harassed as they went, with with individuals often being picked off, and sleep almost impossible. Such was the strain of commanding this retreat, that those nominally in change had gone to pieces, and Raaff, who had stepped up in their absence, died a few weeks later.
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Raaff's Rangers was a unit if Mounted Rifles recruited by Commandant Pieter Johannes Edward Raaff CMG (1849-1893) from the back streets of Johannesburg. Such was its reputation that it was familiarly known as ‘Raaff's Riff-Raff’. It was one of the three columns to enter Matabeleland in 1893. Dyson would have been part of the epic week-long fighting retreat that took place through dense bush in immediate aftermath of the fateful Shangani Patrol. Having run out of food and water within days, they were constantly harassed as they went, with with individuals often being picked off, and sleep almost impossible. Such was the strain of commanding this retreat, that those nominally in change had gone to pieces, and Raaff, who had stepped up in their absence, died a few weeks later.
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