Hi All: Re the QSA & KSA Medals & Bars/Clasps: Most got the QSA, even if they arrived a few days before the end of the war in May 1902. Members of the New Zealand Tenth (last) contingent who disembarked at Durban on 17 or 26 May 1902 got the QSA with SA 02 bar. The KSA required service in South Africa on or after 1 January 1902, and 18 months total service in South Africa before 1 June 1902. Even with continuous service someone serving on 31 May 1902 would have to have started in December 1900 ie before Queen Victoria died (she died 22 January 1901). Time on the ship did not count. If a Battle clasp/bar was issued the soldier did not get a clasp for that state, eg a medal with Diamond Hill or Johannesburg clasps would not have the Transvaal clasp. There were 5 state bars (Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia, Orange Free State & Transvaal). To get the QSA you had to enter a "war zone" and some who accompanied troops or horses on a ship to South Africa did not get the QSA (though one NZ vet was still writing in for a QSA in 1915!). There was also a Transport Medal for the Mercantile Marine on transport/troop ships. The Canadian Veterans website is good on medals (go to Military Medals & Decorations then War Medals 1866-1918): http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp Other websites on medals are: http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/boer_war.htm http://www.pcug.org.au/%7Ecroe/ozb/oz_boer7.htm Yours, John Wilson (New Zealand) > Hi Listers, what is the difference between the"South African medal" Kings > South African medal" and "Queens South African medal"please.