United Kingdom. A Queen’s South Africa Medal to Corporal A.R. Ellis, Nesbitt’s Horse consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the obverse with a circular

the obverse with a circular central medallion with a white enamel elephant facing left

It is dated to Hollenbeck on February 2

he was assigned to the 2nd Royal Field Artillery Cadet School at Exeter on January 25

The reverse features an acid-etched inscription of “DEM SIEGER SA-STURMBANN II/143” with a date of “23

EIN REICH” (“ONE PEOPLE

United Kingdom. A Queen’s South Africa Medal to Corporal A.R. Ellis, Nesbitt’s Horse consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac the obverse with a circularA Queens South Africa Medal. Instituted 1899. In silver, rim officially impressed CORPL. A. R. ELLIS. NESBITTS HORSE. with CAPE COLONY, ORANGE FREE STATE, JOHANNESBURG and SOUTH AFRICA 1901 clasps, bright, minor wear, extremely fine. FOOTNOTE: Lance Corporal Alfred Richard Ellis is on the nominal roll for Nesbitts Horse during the Boer War. Nesbitt's Horse was an irregular mounted regiment raised in South Africa during the Second Boer War (18991902)