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Yesterday's work on the Basutoland officials found me leafing through WO100/299 and I came across page 179 on which is listed the no clasp QSA to Sir Roger Casement.



To the bottom of the page, a newspaper article has been added from a 1916 newspaper listing the details from his will. This was after his execution for his part in the Easter Rising 1916.



At the time of the Boer War, he was working in Consular Service. The QSA roll page is titled HBM Consulate Service. He has started his career in 1895 in Delagoa Bay in 1895. David George Boyce, his biographer said "At this point in his career he was stridently pro-British, fulminating against the Boers and Kruger, and was awarded the queen's South Africa medal."

After the Boer War, he gained an international reputation for his Consular reports criticising the treatment of native workers in the Congo and Amazon. As a result, Belgium improved its administration in the Congo in 1908. Casement was rewarded with a knighthood in 1911. In the same year he retired from the diplomatic service because of poor health and interested himself more in Irish affairs.