PRE WW1 QUEENS SOUTH AFRICAN MEDAL TO TROOPER TONER MIDLAND MOUNTED RIFLES

Queens South Africa Medal 1899, 1 clasp CAPE COLONY, impressed named 159 Tpr: R. TONER. MIDLAND M.R. Comes with copy medal roll.

Possibly served with the Cape Medical Staff Corps as well AS THE M.M.R.

On the 5th of September 1901, Colonel Scobell, who was chasing Lotter, scored the biggest success of the guerrilla campaign. At Petersburg, some forty miles west of Cradock, he succeeded in surrounding his man and in capturing not only him and his whole commando, but an additional gang under Breedt! The whole affair was most brilliantly conceived, and reflected credit on so many for their pluck and gallantry, that some of the names of the heroes who contributed to the success of the affair are scarcely known. Firstly, much of the kudos is due to a party of Midland Mounted Rifles, who, on the 2nd of September, held with such tenacity a pass that Lotter hoped to push through, that the career of the Boer leader was arrested and it became possible for Colonel Scobell to effect his checkmate!

(South Africa and the Transvaal War

BY LOUIS CRESWICKE