Date
Instituted: 1900.
Campaign: Native uprisings in Cape of Good Hope 1880-97.
Description: The obverse bears the
head of Queen Victoria and the legend ‘VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX’.
The reverse has the arms of the Cape Colony with the words ‘CAPE
OF GOOD HOPE’ above and the inscription ‘SPES CONA’ below.
The suspender is straight with a claw mount riveted to the medal.
Metal: Silver.
Size: 36mm.
Clasps: ‘TRANSKEI’, ‘BASUTOLAND’
and ‘BECHUANALAND’.
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Naming: Either
faint indented or engraved blocked capitals but examples with impressed
narrow capitals also exist.
Comments: Only 5252 of these medals
were awarded by the Cape Government to colonial troops who put down a number of small native
uprisings (with only 15 being issued to British troops.) However there were only actually 5156 recipients as some 96 issues of this medal were duplicates or triplicates.
The
medal was usually awarded with a clasp although 10 were awarded
without and only 23 medals exist with all three. |
