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A rare Second Boer War D.C.M. awarded to Trooper Carl Olsson, 2nd Kitchener's Fighting...
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A rare Second Boer War D.C.M. awarded to Trooper Carl Olsson, 2nd Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts
Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Pte. C. Olsson. 2/K.F.S.) slightly later officially impressed naming, with fragmentary ribbon and contemporary suspension brooch, suspension re-pinned and a little slack, otherwise good very fine and rare £600-£800
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Provenance: Purchased from a family source outside Durban in 2003.
D.C.M. London Gazette 31 October 1902. One of just 3 such awards to Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and unique to 2nd K.F.S. (Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, by P. E. Abbott, refers).
Carl Olsson was of Scandinavian ancestry. He served briefly as Trooper 230 with the Utrecht-Vryheid Mounted Police, and then enlisted as Private 540 into the 2nd Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, 31 August 1901, and was slightly wounded at Boschbult on 31 March 1902.
‘In the beginning of March Wilson’s column was, with other troops taken to the Western Transvaal, where, it will be remembered, Lord Methuen had met with disaster. The 2nd K.F.S. were placed under General Walter Kitchener, and were present at the fiercely fought action of Boschbult on 31st March 1902, when they lost 1 killed and 7 wounded. They took part in the final great drives, under General Ian Hamilton, towards the Mafeking railway and back to Klerksdorp.
Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts took the field when the war was far advanced, but during the whole of the second phase of the campaign they did splendid work. Judged by the losses inflicted on the enemy, no corps could point to a finer record, and they are an an outstanding example of what can be made in a very short time of Colonial material, provided that officers suitable for irregulars can be found.’
Carl Olsson was discharged on 7 July 1902.
The style of naming and regimental designation ‘2/K.F.S.’ rather than the usual ‘Kitchener’s F.S.’ would suggest that this is a later or official replacement award.
Sold with copied medal roll entries for Q.S.A. and K.S.A., together with other copied research.
Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Pte. C. Olsson. 2/K.F.S.) slightly later officially impressed naming, with fragmentary ribbon and contemporary suspension brooch, suspension re-pinned and a little slack, otherwise good very fine and rare £600-£800
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Provenance: Purchased from a family source outside Durban in 2003.
D.C.M. London Gazette 31 October 1902. One of just 3 such awards to Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and unique to 2nd K.F.S. (Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, by P. E. Abbott, refers).
Carl Olsson was of Scandinavian ancestry. He served briefly as Trooper 230 with the Utrecht-Vryheid Mounted Police, and then enlisted as Private 540 into the 2nd Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, 31 August 1901, and was slightly wounded at Boschbult on 31 March 1902.
‘In the beginning of March Wilson’s column was, with other troops taken to the Western Transvaal, where, it will be remembered, Lord Methuen had met with disaster. The 2nd K.F.S. were placed under General Walter Kitchener, and were present at the fiercely fought action of Boschbult on 31st March 1902, when they lost 1 killed and 7 wounded. They took part in the final great drives, under General Ian Hamilton, towards the Mafeking railway and back to Klerksdorp.
Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts took the field when the war was far advanced, but during the whole of the second phase of the campaign they did splendid work. Judged by the losses inflicted on the enemy, no corps could point to a finer record, and they are an an outstanding example of what can be made in a very short time of Colonial material, provided that officers suitable for irregulars can be found.’
Carl Olsson was discharged on 7 July 1902.
The style of naming and regimental designation ‘2/K.F.S.’ rather than the usual ‘Kitchener’s F.S.’ would suggest that this is a later or official replacement award.
Sold with copied medal roll entries for Q.S.A. and K.S.A., together with other copied research.
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A rare Second Boer War D.C.M. awarded to Trooper Carl Olsson, 2nd Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts
Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Pte. C. Olsson. 2/K.F.S.) slightly later officially impressed naming, with fragmentary ribbon and contemporary suspension brooch, suspension re-pinned and a little slack, otherwise good very fine and rare £600-£800
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Provenance: Purchased from a family source outside Durban in 2003.
D.C.M. London Gazette 31 October 1902. One of just 3 such awards to Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and unique to 2nd K.F.S. (Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, by P. E. Abbott, refers).
Carl Olsson was of Scandinavian ancestry. He served briefly as Trooper 230 with the Utrecht-Vryheid Mounted Police, and then enlisted as Private 540 into the 2nd Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, 31 August 1901, and was slightly wounded at Boschbult on 31 March 1902.
‘In the beginning of March Wilson’s column was, with other troops taken to the Western Transvaal, where, it will be remembered, Lord Methuen had met with disaster. The 2nd K.F.S. were placed under General Walter Kitchener, and were present at the fiercely fought action of Boschbult on 31st March 1902, when they lost 1 killed and 7 wounded. They took part in the final great drives, under General Ian Hamilton, towards the Mafeking railway and back to Klerksdorp.
Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts took the field when the war was far advanced, but during the whole of the second phase of the campaign they did splendid work. Judged by the losses inflicted on the enemy, no corps could point to a finer record, and they are an an outstanding example of what can be made in a very short time of Colonial material, provided that officers suitable for irregulars can be found.’
Carl Olsson was discharged on 7 July 1902.
The style of naming and regimental designation ‘2/K.F.S.’ rather than the usual ‘Kitchener’s F.S.’ would suggest that this is a later or official replacement award.
Sold with copied medal roll entries for Q.S.A. and K.S.A., together with other copied research.
Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (Pte. C. Olsson. 2/K.F.S.) slightly later officially impressed naming, with fragmentary ribbon and contemporary suspension brooch, suspension re-pinned and a little slack, otherwise good very fine and rare £600-£800
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Provenance: Purchased from a family source outside Durban in 2003.
D.C.M. London Gazette 31 October 1902. One of just 3 such awards to Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts and unique to 2nd K.F.S. (Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, by P. E. Abbott, refers).
Carl Olsson was of Scandinavian ancestry. He served briefly as Trooper 230 with the Utrecht-Vryheid Mounted Police, and then enlisted as Private 540 into the 2nd Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts, 31 August 1901, and was slightly wounded at Boschbult on 31 March 1902.
‘In the beginning of March Wilson’s column was, with other troops taken to the Western Transvaal, where, it will be remembered, Lord Methuen had met with disaster. The 2nd K.F.S. were placed under General Walter Kitchener, and were present at the fiercely fought action of Boschbult on 31st March 1902, when they lost 1 killed and 7 wounded. They took part in the final great drives, under General Ian Hamilton, towards the Mafeking railway and back to Klerksdorp.
Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts took the field when the war was far advanced, but during the whole of the second phase of the campaign they did splendid work. Judged by the losses inflicted on the enemy, no corps could point to a finer record, and they are an an outstanding example of what can be made in a very short time of Colonial material, provided that officers suitable for irregulars can be found.’
Carl Olsson was discharged on 7 July 1902.
The style of naming and regimental designation ‘2/K.F.S.’ rather than the usual ‘Kitchener’s F.S.’ would suggest that this is a later or official replacement award.
Sold with copied medal roll entries for Q.S.A. and K.S.A., together with other copied research.
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