Description
Queen’s South Africa, 2 bars, Cape Colony, Transvaal, 389 Driver A. J. Mackenzie, Prince Alfred’s Own Cape Artillery.
Officially impressed: “389 Dvr: A. J. Mackenzie. Prince Alf: O. Cape A.”
Shown on the medal roll as only entitled to the Cape Colony clasp, might have earned the Transvaal in another unit.
Also earned a matching KSA with both bars.
Scarce to this unit, they had a strength of only about 126 men based at Cape Town.
Prince Alfred’s Own Cape Artillery was an old Volunteer Artillery unit dating back to 1857, in the Boer War it was under command of Lieutenant Colonel T.J.J. Inglesby.
The unit still survives today as the “Nelson Mandela Artillery Regiment”, being one of the oldest volunteer artillery regiments to still exist today.
