QSA +1 to C S M Foggo ASC Died at Chieveley 1900. Ex Scots Guards

Queens South Africa medal with Cape Colony clasp correctly named to 4846 Company Serjeant Major Thomas Drysdale Foggo of the 14th Company Army Service Corps.
Thomas Drysdale Foggo was born in Dunbar, East Lothian around 1857. He enlisted into the Scots Guards around 1880, he saw service in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, and he is also entitled to the Egypt medal with the Tel-El-Kabir clasps and the Khedives Star 1882.
He was married to Sarah on the 18th April 1887 and went on to have six children, the oldest boy also Thomas Drysdale went on to serve in the great war, S/18975 Thomas Drysdale Foggo Army Service Corps who was awarded the British war, Victory medal and the Meritorious Service Medal. His last two children Frederick William and Francis Elizabeth sadly died within a week of each other at aged just five and three years old during June / July 1897.
He served with the Scots Guards until 1892 and wanted to say with his regiment, but now at the age of 35 and at the rank of Serjeant, he was offered reengagement with the Army Service Corps at Aldershot. It was with the ASC he was sent to South Africa in 1899 serving with the 14th Company as Company Serjeant Major part of the Natal Field Force, commanded by Major-General Sir Redvers Buller. He served in the eastern cape region and the Colenso Area, KwaZulu-Natal. There was an incident here in November 1899 known as the Battle of Chieveley.
This was an ambush on a British armoured train travelling from Estcourt to Colenso in a reconnaissance mission. Boer forces under the command of Louis Botha ambushed the armoured train and derailed it. It is best known because it was here that Winston Churchill was taken prisoner.
It was also at Chieveley that Thomas Drysdale Foggo died on the 25th February 1900, his service records states that it was of Dysentery, but it may have been of wounds before he was admitted to hospital and then due to bad sanitary conditions contracted Dysentery. Also, the no 4 Stationary Hospital was near Chieveley and there is now a cemetery near by that has Boer war memorial stone on which T D Foggo is remembered with honour.
This medal is in excellent original condition and comes with copied paperwork including medal rolls, service papers and memorial details.

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