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British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Mashonaland 1897, no clasp (Tpr. H. J....
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British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Mashonaland 1897, no clasp (Tpr. H. J. Ponsonby Mt. Darwin. Vols.) good very fine £300-£400
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Henry Jackson Dalzell Ponsonby was born in Blue Spur, Lawrence, Central Otago, New Zealand in October 1868. He was educated at Blue Spur School, and later employed as a Clerk of Lawrence. Ponsonby frequently appears in editions of the Tuapeka Times, including 1 August 1891:
‘Mr H. J. Ponsonby, who has been for many years employed as a clerk by Mr J. C. Arbuckle, left for Dunedin yesterday afternoon, having accepted a lucrative and responsible position in the well-known auctioneering firm of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. Mr Ponsonby is a young man of smart and energetic business habits, and an exceedingly obliging disposition; and having received a first-class business training, we feel sure he will do credit to his new employers and that he has a promising career before him...’
Ponsonby later travelled to South Africa, and enlisted as a Trooper in the Mount Darwin Volunteers. He stayed in South Africa after the Mashonaland Campaign of 1897, and the Otago Witness of 24 May 1905 gives him as:
‘Another New Zealander with a sound knowledge of Rhodesia and the border lands, and who has been on the Rand for some time, joins Mr Hazlett in his latest venture [railway contract work in West Portuguese territory].’
Hazlett and Ponsonby were then employed in a similar capacity in the Transvaal. The latter left South Africa, arriving in Liverpool, in May 1911. Ponsonby returned to Africa, and settled on the Gold Coast of West Africa in 1913. He returned to the UK the following year, before eventually settling in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Henry Jackson Dalzell Ponsonby was born in Blue Spur, Lawrence, Central Otago, New Zealand in October 1868. He was educated at Blue Spur School, and later employed as a Clerk of Lawrence. Ponsonby frequently appears in editions of the Tuapeka Times, including 1 August 1891:
‘Mr H. J. Ponsonby, who has been for many years employed as a clerk by Mr J. C. Arbuckle, left for Dunedin yesterday afternoon, having accepted a lucrative and responsible position in the well-known auctioneering firm of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. Mr Ponsonby is a young man of smart and energetic business habits, and an exceedingly obliging disposition; and having received a first-class business training, we feel sure he will do credit to his new employers and that he has a promising career before him...’
Ponsonby later travelled to South Africa, and enlisted as a Trooper in the Mount Darwin Volunteers. He stayed in South Africa after the Mashonaland Campaign of 1897, and the Otago Witness of 24 May 1905 gives him as:
‘Another New Zealander with a sound knowledge of Rhodesia and the border lands, and who has been on the Rand for some time, joins Mr Hazlett in his latest venture [railway contract work in West Portuguese territory].’
Hazlett and Ponsonby were then employed in a similar capacity in the Transvaal. The latter left South Africa, arriving in Liverpool, in May 1911. Ponsonby returned to Africa, and settled on the Gold Coast of West Africa in 1913. He returned to the UK the following year, before eventually settling in Lagos, Nigeria.
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British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Mashonaland 1897, no clasp (Tpr. H. J. Ponsonby Mt. Darwin. Vols.) good very fine £300-£400
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Henry Jackson Dalzell Ponsonby was born in Blue Spur, Lawrence, Central Otago, New Zealand in October 1868. He was educated at Blue Spur School, and later employed as a Clerk of Lawrence. Ponsonby frequently appears in editions of the Tuapeka Times, including 1 August 1891:
‘Mr H. J. Ponsonby, who has been for many years employed as a clerk by Mr J. C. Arbuckle, left for Dunedin yesterday afternoon, having accepted a lucrative and responsible position in the well-known auctioneering firm of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. Mr Ponsonby is a young man of smart and energetic business habits, and an exceedingly obliging disposition; and having received a first-class business training, we feel sure he will do credit to his new employers and that he has a promising career before him...’
Ponsonby later travelled to South Africa, and enlisted as a Trooper in the Mount Darwin Volunteers. He stayed in South Africa after the Mashonaland Campaign of 1897, and the Otago Witness of 24 May 1905 gives him as:
‘Another New Zealander with a sound knowledge of Rhodesia and the border lands, and who has been on the Rand for some time, joins Mr Hazlett in his latest venture [railway contract work in West Portuguese territory].’
Hazlett and Ponsonby were then employed in a similar capacity in the Transvaal. The latter left South Africa, arriving in Liverpool, in May 1911. Ponsonby returned to Africa, and settled on the Gold Coast of West Africa in 1913. He returned to the UK the following year, before eventually settling in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Henry Jackson Dalzell Ponsonby was born in Blue Spur, Lawrence, Central Otago, New Zealand in October 1868. He was educated at Blue Spur School, and later employed as a Clerk of Lawrence. Ponsonby frequently appears in editions of the Tuapeka Times, including 1 August 1891:
‘Mr H. J. Ponsonby, who has been for many years employed as a clerk by Mr J. C. Arbuckle, left for Dunedin yesterday afternoon, having accepted a lucrative and responsible position in the well-known auctioneering firm of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. Mr Ponsonby is a young man of smart and energetic business habits, and an exceedingly obliging disposition; and having received a first-class business training, we feel sure he will do credit to his new employers and that he has a promising career before him...’
Ponsonby later travelled to South Africa, and enlisted as a Trooper in the Mount Darwin Volunteers. He stayed in South Africa after the Mashonaland Campaign of 1897, and the Otago Witness of 24 May 1905 gives him as:
‘Another New Zealander with a sound knowledge of Rhodesia and the border lands, and who has been on the Rand for some time, joins Mr Hazlett in his latest venture [railway contract work in West Portuguese territory].’
Hazlett and Ponsonby were then employed in a similar capacity in the Transvaal. The latter left South Africa, arriving in Liverpool, in May 1911. Ponsonby returned to Africa, and settled on the Gold Coast of West Africa in 1913. He returned to the UK the following year, before eventually settling in Lagos, Nigeria.
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