Queens South Africa Medal to the Royal Army Medical Corps, medal with 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal and Laing’s Nek, impressed naming, ‘10438 PTE. T. SPRINGFIELD R.A.M.C.’. Ghost dates to reverse of medal. 20-year-old Thomas Springfield, a porter from Lambeth, London attested for the Medical Staff Corps on 23rd June 1894. From his 12 years of service, his only overseas service was the 2 years and 338 days he spent in South Africa serving with No.17 General Hospital (previously known as No.4 Stationary Hospital). He transferred to the Reserve on 1st November 1902 and was discharged on 22nd June 1906. edal and all clasps confirmed on the roll, also entitled to the Kings South Africa medal.