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Here are some photos of the Canadian Scouts badge made in Australia..... The uniform has the Canadian Maple Leaf badge the same as worn by RCR in South Africa.....

Also here is the type of information that I have.....

TROOPER T. OGDEN

NAME: OGDEN, Thomas
RANK: Trooper
Regt. Number 36865 / 195
DOB/POB: None Shown
AGE ON ENLISTMENT: 23
OCCUPATION: Carpenter
RELIGION: Church of England
MARITAL STATUS: Single
C.S. ENLISTMENT DATE: 28/09/1901 – Cape Town
C.S. RELEASE DATE: 09/04/1902 (Time Expired)
CHARACTER: Very Good
FORMER SERVICE: Scott's Railway Guards (No. 446) 12/03/01
Transport Corps (Stockrider)
Stockriders Corps
SUBSEQUENT SERVICE: None Shown
MEDALS: Q.S.A. - Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902
NOTES/REMARKS: None
NEXT-OF-KIN: Gisborne, New Zealand

REFERENCES:

TNA, WO 126/129, Local Armed Forces Enrolment Forms – Scott's Railway Guards
TNA, WO 127/4 Local Armed Forces Nominal Rolls – Canadian Scouts, p76 & p194a
TNA, WO 126/17, Local Armed Forces Enrolment Forms – Canadian Scouts
TNA, WO 100/287, Canadian Scouts Medal Roll, p308, p339


SERGEANT DAYTON BROWN HAMMOND

NAME: HAMMOND, Dayton Brown
REGIMENTAL NO.: 129
RANK: Sergeant
DOB/POB: Owen Sound, Ontario
AGE ON ENLISTMENT: 23
OCCUPATION: Farmer
RELIGION: Church of England
MARITAL STATUS: Single
C.S. ENLISTMENT DATE: 01/12/1900
PROMOTED:
C.S. RELEASE DATE: 28/01/1901 (Killed in Action @ Erestefabrieken [Vlak Kraal])
FORMER SERVICE: “C” Battery, Royal Canadian Field Artillery, 02/01/1900 – 30/11/1900
SUBSEQUENT SERVICE: Nil
MEDALS: Q.S.A. - Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Transvaal
NOTES/REMARKS: Original Member
Killed in Action at Vlak Kraal, January 27th 1901. “There is one part of it which I think the hardest to bear and that is that he was killed by the British by a mistaken order, this we learned from a comrade who was on the field at the time.” Mr. Brown (father) in letter to Col. W.D. Otter
NEXT-OF-KIN: Father – Robert Hammond – Owen Sound

REFERENCES:

LAC, RG 9, Militia and Defence, Series 11-A-5, Vol. 14, Reel C 1863 – Medal Registers
LAC, RG 24, National Defence Series 11-A-1, Vol. 340, Docket 20142, Canadian Scouts Nominal Roll p.2
LAC, RG 38, Veterans Affairs, Series A-1-a, VOL. 43, Reel T-2072 – Service Documents
LAC, RG 38, Veterans Affairs, VOL. 131, South African Volunteer Land Grant Application, Number 6210
TNA, WO 127/4 Local Armed Forces Nominal Rolls – Canadian Scouts, p40
TNA, WO 100/287, Canadian Scouts Medal Roll, p295, p328
South Africa Field Force Casualty List, January 1, 1901 to June 30, 1901, p.96


Mike