Description
Queen’s South Africa Medal, 4 bars, Belfast, SA 1901, 4722 Private C. Copeley, 2nd Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Officially impressed: “4772 Pte C. Copeley, Rl. Warwick: Regt”
Entitlement confirmed on the medal roll.
Shown on the roll for his medal with first 3 clasps as “Copley” and the roll for his SA 1901 date bar as “Copeley”.
By the time the roll was written at Bermuda on 29th September 1901 he had been sent home “To England”.
The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment arrived early into the Boer War, and earned the Battle Clasp for “Belfast” aka the Battle of Bergendal.
In 1901, many of the men were suffering from malarial fever, and they were the in August transferred to Bermuda in order to Guard Boer Prisoners of War.
