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2016.011.085

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Box, Jewelry

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Jewelry Box - Capt Fleming, 1912

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FOUNDATIONS OF THE 72nd REGT, 1910-1914

Fondations du 72e régiment, 1910-1914

Jewelry Box - Capt Fleming, 1912

Jewelry Box belonging to Capt Fleming, 1912. It has a white metal SHC cap badge and white metal corners. At the onset of the Great War, Captain Hamilton Maxwell Fleming [Flemming] enlisted as the 2nd in Command of No. 2nd Company, 16th Battalion, Canadian Scottish on 22 September 1914 . He arrived in France on 9 February 1915, He was killed in action on 15 April, 1915. Hamilton Maxwell Fleming, #6191 also served in the South African (Boer) War with the 2nd Regiment, Brabant's Horse and ended as a Quartermaster Sergeant (CQMS). On 5 November 1899, Edward Brabant raised the Light Horse Regiment known as Brabant's Horse. The top strength of the unit was 600, all ranks, including South African colonials, Australians, British, Canadians. The unit saw much action against Boer commandos. Brabant's Horse was disbanded in Cape Town on 31 December 1901.
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