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Well, there seems to be nothing missing with that particular one, a fairly typical example, although, some are not as complete as that, to be quite honest, they are certainly not medals that you will encounter all than often anyway, so certainly worth buying if you see one for sale.

Rory wrote: I quite agree Frank which is why I sourced the original through Kevin Asplin - see below - you never know if any detail has been omitted even unintentionally until you have sight of the real thing.

Hi - I'm researching a couple of men from French's Scouts (Francis Henry Somerset and his brother Edmund Edgerley Somerset). I would love to see their attestations - was this attestation from WO 126 at Kew or from a South African archive?

Hi Phil

The only Attestation papers for Colonial units are in Kew. None are available in SA save for the S.A.C. and Cape Police records (some of them)

Regards

Rory

Thank's Rory

That's is a lot more convenient for me! I shall probably nip up to Kew tomorrow and check them out.

From you reply I guess it means that Natal Mounted Police records are lost?

Phil