A Boer War VC Action casualty pair of medals to Robert William Dunham, Kitchener's Horse and

A Boer War VC Action casualty pair of medals to Robert William Dunham, Kitchener's Horse and Damant's Horse: Queen's South Africa, second type, 6 clasps: Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (3585 TPR: R. B. DUNHAM. KITCHENER'S HORSE), about very fine and toned; King's South Africa, both dated clasps (38827 TPR: R. W. DUNHAM. DAMANT'S HORSE), official correction to unit, about very fine. [2]

Robert William Dunham enlisted in Kitchener's Horse on the 9th of February 1900, and it was in this unit that he qualified for the first three clasps to the QSA. He transferred to Rimmington's Guides in April 1900 (having sold a horse to the O/C Kitchener's Horse) and this unit's name was changed to Damant's Horse in the following year. Dunham was dangerously wounded in the action at Tafel Kop on the 20th of December 1901, in which Shoeing Smith A.E. Ind R.H.A. won the Victoria Cross. Discharged as "medically unfit" Dunham was subsequently employed as a civilian clerk in the Army Service Corps. NB. the second initial on the Q.S.A. is a reflection of an apparent error on the medal roll.