Boer War Queen South Africa Medal To "1036 Private W.J. Jones Cape Police Distr. 1".

Boer War Queen South Africa Medal To "1036 Private W.J. Jones Cape Police Distr. 1".

The Cape Mounted Police (originally Cape Police) was the principal law enforcement agency of the Cape Colony during its last three decades. In addition to its ordinary policing duties, it was a para-military organisation, which saw active service in several campaigns and operations, including the Anglo-Boer War (18991902).

The government mobilised the Cape Police on the outbreak of war in October 1899, and placed them under military command. Both Districts 1 (Cape Town) and 2 were in action throughout the war. Neither served as a unit, but was broken up into detachments which served with British and Cape military formations in many parts of the colony, and in the neighbouring Boer republics. The force was fully militarised in 1913 and transferred to the new South African Army as a mounted rifle regiment.