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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal, Queen's South Africa Medal, XF

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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal, Queen's South Africa Medal, XF
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GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal, Queen's South Africa Medal, MY-150, crowned and veiled effigy of Queen Victoria, facing left, with the legend VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX around the upper perimeter // the reverse, designed by G. W. de Saulles, shows Britannia holding the Union Flag in her left hand and a laurel wreath in her right hand. In the right background are troops marching inland from the coast. In the left background are two men-of-war, with Neptune's Trident and Britannia's shield on the ground in the foreground. Around the top perimeter are the words SOUTH AFRICA, with new ribbon, and repaired post on hanger, awarded to 30078 PTE W.A. GASS, RAND RIFLES, XF. The Queen's South Africa Medal is a British campaign medal which was awarded to British and Colonial military personnel, civilians employed in official capacity and war correspondents who served in the Second Boer War in South Africa. Altogether twenty-six clasps were awarded to recipients of the Queen's South Africa Medal, to indicate particular actions and campaigns of the Second Boer War. The Rand Rifles corps was raised towards the end of 1900, and was generally employed on the defences of Johannesburg and of posts in the surrounding district. They saw some skirmishing and some sharp attacks on posts, but they were not in any big engagement, and had few opportunities of gaining distinction. The corps remained on service till the end of the war.