Major Andrew Noble Bredin was one of the North West Mounted Policemen who joined the Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1899. He had joined the "Mounties" in 1897 after being educated at King's School Canterbury. In response to Canada's efforts in sending contingents to South Africa the Secretary of State for War 'offered to Canada, 42 direct Commissions in the Army, 12 of which were to be given to Canadians in attendance at the Royal Military College of Canada. Of the remaining 30, 24 were set apart by His Excellency the Governor General for members of the Canadian Corps on service in South Africa' (War Office records refer). Bredin was the recipient of one of these commissions and gazetted to the Leinster Regiment in January 1901. He joined them in Barbados but returned to South Africa in 1902 and served for the rest of the War, and was Mentioned in Despatches by Lord Kitchener (London Gazette 29.7.1902 refers). In 1911 he was transferred to the Gurkhas and served in the Great War and the Kurdistan Campaign of 1919, being wounded at Gallipoli, Mentioned in Despatches for Kurdistan and awarded the Persian Order of the Lion and Sun, Third Class.