Royal West Africa Frontier Journals for articles
Pre-WW1 military encounters (1880-1914)
This section has been added to assist researchers tracing the involvement of individuals who had prior military service to World War One. Military actions are in descending chronological order. Unless otherwise specified, references are to files at The National Archives, Kew.
1899-1921 – Sayyid Muhammad Abd Allah al-Hasan (aka ‘Mad Mullah’) (Somaliland)
1911-1917 – Senussi (North Africa)
1907 – Maji maji (GEA/Tanzania)
1906 – Bambatha (South African)
1904 – Herero (GSWA/Namibia)
1899-1902 – 2nd Anglo-Boer (South African) War
Queen’s African Medal
King’s African Medal
Lists of British forces – Findmypast, Ancestry, Causis-Belli have all used the same listings for their registers. These are:
* The complete Queen’s South Africa medal roll for the Coldstream Guards, Irish Guards, 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers and Rundles Scouts [National Archives, Kew in series WO100]
* QSA rolls for: Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia), Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, Maritzburg Ambulance Corps, Natal Field Artillery and Natal Volunteer Hotchkiss Gun Detachment [National Archives, Kew in series WO100]
* Complete Wepener clasp roll [National Archives, Kew in series WO100]
* King’s South Africa rolls for: 9th Lancers, 12th Lancers, 10th Hussars, 11th Hussars and Imperial Yeomanry [National Archives, Kew in series WO100]
* Talana clasp for 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, Leicestershire Regiment and King’s Royal Rifle Corps [National Archives, Kew in series WO100]
* Official Casualty Rolls
* A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
* Medal Rolls [National Archives, Kew in series WO100]
* Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project
* Winifred Scott’s Anglo-Boer War Index [a private index]
* Kevin Asplin’s rolls for the British cavalry, Imperial Yeomanry, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Lovat’s Scouts and Scottish Horse
* Colin Roe – Oz-Boer database on Australian soldiers
* Steve Watt – In Memoriam, Natal University Press, 2000
* A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by HM & MGM Jones, Military Press 1999 contains 2,348 entries
* Strathcona’s Horse – Canadian Documentary: The Queen’s Cowboys by Tony Maxwell
* South African commemorative medals – searchable database
1823-1901 – Anglo-Ashanti (Gold Coast/Ghana)
1898 – Fashoda (Egypt)
1890-1906 – Nandi Rebellion (BEA/Kenya)
1898 – Sierra Leone
1897 – Benin Expedition
1896 – Adua (Italy)
1895/6 – Jameson Raid
1895, Dec – Gungunhama (PEA/Mozambique)
1893, 1896 Matabeleland & Mashonaland
Medals – WO 100/77
If no clasp for Mashonaland 1897, likely to have been in No 2 Matabeleland Div. All in No 3 Div got medals (BSAP in WW1 & 2, p118)
1884-1885 – Nile Expedition
1882 – Abboukir
1881-1898 – Mahdi Revolt (Egypt/Sudan)
1881-1889 – Unyoro or Bunyoro (Uganda)
1879 – Anglo-Zulu (South Africa)
Isandlwana
1779-1879 – Eastern Cape / Xhosa (South Africa)
1874 – Ashanti
1871 – Bechuana Rebellion
Cape Mounted Police
Vryburg Volunteers
1868 – Abyssinia
1859 – Morocco
For lists and information of Rhodesian the following are available fromthe SA Military History Society:
Early Rhodesian Units part 1 – EHJ Shaw (1967
Early Rhodesian Units part 2 – Norman Gomm (1968)
Further notes on Rhodesian military units and early weapons – G Tylden (1968)
Charles Callwell’s Small Wars has mention of various encounters pre-1900