BRITISH BOER WAR QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA MEDAL Q.S.A.: LITHUANIAN BORN AARON NEWMARK: DURBAN ROAD TOWN GUARD
Offered is a Queens South Africa Medal, no clasp, impressed named PTE A. NEWMARK. DURBAN RD T.G. comes with copy medal roll and discharge certificate. Original photographs (3), sketch and research. Only 24 medals were issued to the Durban Road Town Guard. Aaron Newmark was born in Lithuania in 1876 and emigrated to Cape Town in 1895. At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War, he returned to the Cape Colony to settle at Durban Road (Durban Road in is next to Bellville, Cape Town), and set up in business as a general dealer in partnership with Mr. Herman Sacks – trading as ‘Newmark & Sacks’. Newmark attested for the Durban Road Town Guard on 17 February 1901. The relevant roll states: ‘The call to Permanent duty at Elsies Rover Bridge was not well responded to. There were only 24 men although 28 were required. The bridge was guarded from 1st April to 19th May 1901 – Relieving Driscoll’s Scouts.’ He discharged on 17 May 1901. Newmark subsequently returned to Lithuania to marry Luba August. A daughter, Annie, was born at Durban Road in 1904. In 1917, Newmark moved with his family to Cape Town and started a wholesale grocery […]
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Offered is a Queens South Africa Medal, no clasp, impressed named PTE A. NEWMARK. DURBAN RD T.G. comes with copy medal roll and discharge certificate. Original photographs (3), sketch and research.
Only 24 medals were issued to the Durban Road Town Guard.
Aaron Newmark was born in Lithuania in 1876 and emigrated to Cape Town in 1895. At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War, he returned to the Cape Colony to settle at Durban Road (Durban Road in is next to Bellville, Cape Town), and set up in business as a general dealer in partnership with Mr. Herman Sacks - trading as 'Newmark & Sacks'.
Newmark attested for the Durban Road Town Guard on 17 February 1901. The relevant roll states: 'The call to Permanent duty at Elsies Rover Bridge was not well responded to. There were only 24 men although 28 were required. The bridge was guarded from 1st April to 19th May 1901 - Relieving Driscoll's Scouts.' He discharged on 17 May 1901.
Newmark subsequently returned to Lithuania to marry Luba August. A daughter, Annie, was born at Durban Road in 1904. In 1917, Newmark moved with his family to Cape Town and started a wholesale grocery business in which he was active for half a century. He died in 1974, aged 97, and was buried at Muizenberg.
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| Weight | 0.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 10 × 8 cm |
