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Description
Queen’s South Africa medal, Type 3, with clasps “CAPE COLONY”, “ORANGE FREE STATE” & “TRANSVAAL”, edge impressed “1363 PTE E.E. ROBINSON. VICTORIAN M.R.”
A stock standard Victorian QSA 3 clasps with limited substantiating service details, medal unmounted and basically as issued, nicely toned.
Born on the 2nd September 1872, Edgar Edward Robinson, a Victorian man and a blacksmith by trade, attested for the Victorian (3rd M.D.) Military Forces on the 31st January 1901 for service in the Anglo-Boer War and was posted to the Victorian 5th Mounted Rifles and assigned rank and number Private 1363. Amongst the 5th Victorian M.R., consisting of 8 companies and 46 officers and totalling 1017 men strong and 1099 horses, Edgar embarked from Melbourne aboard the Steam ship ‘Orient’ on the 15th February 1901, with the horses aboard the ‘Argus’ and the ‘City of Lincoln’.
- Men of the 5th M.R. disembarked at Port Elizabeth and proceeded to Pretoria to mobilize
The unit returned to Australia either on the 27th March 1902 aboard ‘St. Andrew’, disembarking at Melbourne 25th April, or aboard ‘Custodian’ on the 28th March and arrived at Melbourne 26th April.
