Lot Essay
Private George Ellmore won the maximum number of clasps awarded to any one soldier for the Boer War - ten.
The 9th Lancers war services 'were as continuously hard, as brilliant, and as fruitful as those of any other regiment' (Stirling refers) and the Regiment campaigned ceaselessly for two and a half years. The only Regiment to receive four Battle Honours - 'South Africa 1899-1902', 'Modder River', 'Relief of Kimberley' and 'Paardeberg', by the end of hostilities the 9th Lancers had been present at the following battles and operations: Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, Magersfontein, Koedoesberg Drift, Klip Drift, Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, De Wet Hunt and Capture of Lotter.
The 9th Lancers war services 'were as continuously hard, as brilliant, and as fruitful as those of any other regiment' (Stirling refers) and the Regiment campaigned ceaselessly for two and a half years. The only Regiment to receive four Battle Honours - 'South Africa 1899-1902', 'Modder River', 'Relief of Kimberley' and 'Paardeberg', by the end of hostilities the 9th Lancers had been present at the following battles and operations: Belmont, Graspan, Modder River, Magersfontein, Koedoesberg Drift, Klip Drift, Paardeberg, Poplar Grove, De Wet Hunt and Capture of Lotter.