An Interesting Queens South African Medal to the Royal Army Medical Corps for the 2nd Anglo-Boer War to a Recipient who was later Discharged 3 Times for ill Health from Different Units During the Great War, Queens South Africa medal with 2 clasps, Cape Colony and South Africa 1902, ‘14513 PTE. H. HALSEY R.A.M.C.’ arry Halsey was a 19 year old college servant from Oxford when he attested for service in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 29th August 1900. He had 2 periods of service, totalling 193 days, in South Africa before he was invalided home in June 1902 due to the effects of rheumatic fever. He transferred to the reserve on 3rd September 1903 and was mobilised for service on 6th August 1914, he was discharged 13 days later as being no longer physically fit for service. In 1931 he applied for an Army pension stating that he served through the whole of the Great War initially as #8275 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and then as #292578 Royal Garrison Artillery. 8275 Henry Halsey was discharged from the 2nd OBLI due to sickness on 31st May 1915 having earnt a 1914-15 trio and a Silver War Badge, 292578 Henry Halsey was discharged from the R.G.A. due to sickness on 19th December 1918 being awarded a pair of medals and another Silver War Badge! In 1939 he is listed as a General Clerk in an engineering firm and was also an Air Raid Warden. Henry Halsey died in Oxford in the last quarter of 1956.