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Distinguished Conduct Medal awarded 27.9.1901 for service in the Boer War. M.I.D. in Earl Robert’s despatches dated 10.9.1901.
When the naval guns were first used in the field they were hauled by ox-teams, but Lieutenant Halsey’s report of 20th July 1900 (Naval Brigade despatches) mentions that on 12th July he borrowed two gun-teams, drivers, harness, etc. from Major Guiness, 86th battery R.F.A. and proceed to experiment on the possibility of horsing the naval guns. ‘Finding them satisfactory, I took then to headquarters and paraded them before Sir Redvers Buller’ The guns subsequently went into action with horses and drivers of the 86th. It is interesting to note that 86th battery notes in British Regiments in South Africa mention the naval guns on page 501, I wonder if Sergeant Griffiths was part of the team.
