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World War Two: North African Campaign (1940-1943). Private Ferguson, Botha Regiment, who received an immediate award of the Military Medal for his part in the battle of Sidi Rezegh.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_B/E418/PA1_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

150 mm x 200 mm; black and white; condition: excellent; copyright: SANMMH.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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World War Two: North African Campaign (1940-1943). Private Ferguson, Botha Regiment, who received an immediate award of the Military Medal for his part in the battle of Sidi Rezegh.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_B/E419/PA1_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

150 mm x 200 mm; black and white; condition: excellent; copyright: SANMMH.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert Batty.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- Service record.
-- Letters: relinguishing his post of South African Provision Officer, 15.12.1947; letter of thanks and appreciation on departure as Officer Commanding, SAPO Natal, 17.4.1942; letter on departure from Maydon Wharf, 15.12.1948.
-- Documents: Declaring the return to the Retired List of the Union Defence Forces with rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, 1.3.1949; 1922 Strike - an outline of association with Colonel Batty during Strike by John E Hughes, 25.4.1963; an account of a movement during the Strike by Lieutenant HGP Metcalfe, 12.3.1922; notice from Fordsburg Strike Committee stating prisoners taken "To whom it may concern", 12.3.1922.
-- Police permit, 19.6.1925.
-- Handwritten brief historical records: Left Wing - Imperial Light Horse; Western Rifles; Eastern Rifles; Western Mounted Rifles; Eastern Mounted Rifles; Southern Mounted Rifles.
-- Letter written by his wife - re brief information re the 1922 strike; 1914-1918 War pensions; Second World War South African Provision Office.
-- Photographs.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert Crisp.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- Brief biographical information.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert Deane.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- Photograph.
-- Correspondence.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert Duncan
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- Memorial scroll, First World War.
-- Memorial certificate, 1914 - 1918.
-- Regimental testimony of Gallantry, 15.1.1918, attached to 1 Battalion SA Infantry.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert McMurray.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- Obituary, 31.7.1968.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert Mansergh.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- Journal articles re his military career.
-- Memorial service programme at the Westminster Abbey, 11.12.1970.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert Walten.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- ID pass, 1941.
-- Photograph.
-- Clothes labels.
-- Luck 1/4 penny for Victory.
-- Alexandria Water Comp. Ltd. tariff card.
-- Photographs re his flight with a Waterboat.
-- British Airways flight schedule tickets, 1941.
-- Account by Joan Walten, re penetration of German positions before El Alamein, 1.1.1943.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Robert Hudson.
Identifier: ZA SMM001 #_#_920_#
Repository: South African National Museum of Military History
Archivist's notes:

-- Certificates of discharge - attached to the Neyland Orange River Scouts, 30.6.1902.
-- Personal reference letters, 1914.
-- Certificate re the 1914 - 15 Star.
-- Official letters of condolence, First World War.
Register: National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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