Over the past decade, I collected a considerable number of British Campaign Medals and documented the complete collection on a separate website which is still active, spanning over 3 centuries of British military history across all parts of the globe. The medals which initially stimulated my growing interest in the subject started with those awarded to my Late Great Uncle Herbert Cambell Maw who was killed during the Natal Rebellion in 1906.
An extract recording his casualty can be found in “Light Horse Cavalcade 1899-1961” by Harry Klein & published in 1969 by Howard Timmins Quote “On May 13th the Transvaal Mounted Rifles (TMR) experienced their first casualty, when Trooper H.C. Maw while searching for his horse on the edge of the Kombe forest, was mortally wounded in a lone clash with a Zulu scouting party” Unquote.
Herbert was a son of Arthur Maw and was born in 1870 and lived at Severn House before heading out to South Africa and joining the Imperial Light Horse at the start of the Boer War (1899-1902)
Over a period of almost 10 years, the collection grew to well in excess of 100 medals with each one carefully researched and documented as far as practically possible.
For more information about each individual battle and a description of each award, please visit the following website
https://natal1906.wordpress.com