Victorian Boer War Campaign Medal Pair to a Recipient Who Served for 21 Years in the Royal Army Medical Corps Before Being Commissioned in 1917, Queens South Africa medal with clasp Cape Colony, impressed naming, ‘11024 L.CPL. W. CATHERALL R.A.M.C.’, Kings South Africa medal with 2 clasps, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902, ‘11024 CORPL: W CATHERALL R.A.M.C.’, with contact marks to the obverse from wearing. allace Catherall from Dorking in Surrey attested for the Medical Staff Corps on 6th March 1896. He spent 2 years and 259 days in South Africa serving with No.1 General Hospital. Both medals with these clasps are confirmed on the relevant rolls. He continued serving through into the Great War and landed in France on 14th August 1914 qualifying for a 1914 Star trio. In November the same year he was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct medal. He was commissioned as Lieutenant & Quarter Master in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 14th April 1917, having served 21 years and 40 days in the Ranks.