British Campaign, Long Service etc. Medals >
Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, (3) clasps, to an Artist, Reeves, Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard / Scott's Railway Guards / S.A. Light Horse
Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, (3) clasps, to an Artist, Reeves, Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard / Scott's Railway Guards / S.A. Light Horse
Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, (3) clasps, to an Artist, Reeves, Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard / Scott's Railway Guards / S.A. Light Horse
754 BANDSMAN C. REEVES. PRINCE ALF. VOL. GD.
(3 bars-Cape Colony, OFS, Tvl.)
Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard
NVF.
Charles Maxwell Reeves was born circa 1876 in London, England, he gave his occupation as Aan rtist when he enlisted. He is on the QSA Roll for The South African Light Horse which shows service in the Prince Alfred's Volunteer Guard Mounted Infantry. The KSA Roll gives a few more details; P.A.V.G. 18/10/99 -1/12/00, then Railway Guards 7/3/01 - 6/9/ 01 as #291 and lastly service in the S.A.L.H. 28/9/01-9/4/02. Trooper #38801.
A C. Reeves died in service in WW1 serving in The Protectorate Garrison Regiment on 5th Sept. 1917 service #4248, don't know if this is the same person.
Scott's Railway Guards
This corps, strength about 500, under Lieutenant Colonel R G Scott, VC, DSO, did work on the Orange River - Kimberley line not unlike what the Railway Pioneer Regiment did on the Central Railway. Although the Kimberley railway was not in the centre of the theatre of operations, still the west of the Orange River Colony, and that portion of Cape Colony bordering on it, was infested by roving bands bent on destruction; and Scott's Railway Guards had often skirmishes involving losses, and had much dangerous patrol work to undertake. On 15th June 1901 the corps engaged the enemy at Hartebeestfontein, in the Western Transvaal, and captured some prisoners, stock, and ammunition. On 20th August Lieutenant A V Harvey and 1 man were killed and several wounded at Devondale.
