Queens South Africa medal and WW1 Trio…
This is the first QSA medal I’ve seen in person and I am not familiar with them.
These are the only pictures I have.
My overall opinion is that it’s a put together bar:
-I cannot find the name in the list on this Angloboarwar site:
Anglo Boer War website - Name search
-I can find the name for the WW1 trio:
The National Archives | Search results:dickson 6866
By the looks of it a POW in ww1:
https://armyservicenumbers.blogspot….pows-1914.html
- The medal obverse seems soft on details to me, and I’m not sure if it’s even composed of the right metal. Overall it had a light feeling in weight. ( I know I’m missing the important reverse of the medal, I took the picture but it was blurred)
- The clasp joints look sloppy.
- Engraving of the name doesn’t seem to match the examples of the time.
Anglo Boer War website - Queen’s South Africa Medal naming styles
- Would Dickson still be a private when receiving the WW1 trio, some 14 years later?
-The bar isn’t really joined together by a bar, but a fabric strip attaching them all together. This may be period, but I have never seen it in person.
Looking for some reassurance that I did the right thing by walking away from it.
Thank you,
