powellroberts

Lord Roberts V.C. &
Colonel Baden Powell Defender of Mafeking

Currently I have 13 different types and they are pictured
below with the reference number from
"Australian Medals and Medalets from 1788" by L.J. Carlisle
with corresponding page numbers.

Colonel Baden - Powell Defender of Mafeking Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded, Silver Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1900-08 Page 91 Reverse: Relief of Mafeking 16th May, 1900 and Baden - Powell The Hero who kept the Flag Flying for 209 Days	Colonel Baden - Powell Defender of Mafeking Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded, Silver Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1900-09 Page 91 Reverse: Relief of Mafeking 16th May, 1900 and Baden - Powell The Hero who kept the Flag Flying for over 215 Days
British Transvaal War 1899 - 1900 Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1899-00-12 Page 88 Reverse: Relief of Mafeking 16th May, 1900 and Baden - Powell The Hero who kept the Flag Flying for 209 Days	Colonel Baden Powell Size: 26mm Metal: White Metal Mintage and Mint: Unknown Ref # 1899-00-19 Page 89 Reverse: Transvaal 1899-1900 (very rare)
Hero of Mafeking. British Transvaal War 1899-00 Size: 31mm Metal: Bronze Gilded - Silver Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1899-00-21 Page 89 Reverse: Town Hall Deniliquin / G.H.Perrin / Mayor	Colonel Baden - Powell Defender of Mafeking Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded - Silver Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1900-8 Page 91 Reverse: Lord Roberts V.C. S. Africa 1900
Colonel Baden - Powell Defender of Mafeking Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded - Brass Mintage & Mint: Unknown Ref # F-2 Page 281 Reverse: Field - Marshall Lord Roberts, V.C.	Lord Roberts, V.C. S. Africa, 1900 Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1900-13 Page 92 Reverse: In Commemoration of Peace, British Boer War, Lest We Forget
Field - Marshal Lord Roberts, V.C. Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded - Silver Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes Ref # 1899-00-3 Page 86 Reverse: British Transvaal War 1899 - 1900	Lord Roberts, V.C. S. Africa, 1900 Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1899-00-9 Page 87 Reverse: British Transvaal War 1899 - 1900
Castlemaine, Lest We Forget Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded Mintage: Unknown Mint: This is unlisted in the Carlisle Book, but I would say it has to be from Stokes of Melbourne, It is similar to page 277 Ref # C-3 Reverse: British Transvaal War 1899 - 1900	Colonel Baden Powell Defender of Mafeking Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref# 1900-5 Page 90 Reverse: In Commemoration of the Relief of Mafeking, May 1900, Warracknabeal
Colonel Baden Powell Defender of Mafeking Size: 23mm Metal: Bronze Gilded Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref# 1899-00-2 Page 86 Reverse: British Transvaal War 1899 - 1900	Lord Roberts, V.C. S. Africa 1900 Size: 23mm Metal: Silver Mintage: Unknown Mint: Stokes of Melbourne Ref # 1900-7 Page 91 Reverse: Colonel Baden - Powell Defender of Mafeking

BADEN POWELL

Born in London in 1857 and joined the army in 1876.
He then served in fighting forces in Afghanistan and India.
He is best remembered as the defender of Mafeking when
he and a detachment of British troops were
besieged by the Boers from October 1899 until May 1900.
The defeated them after 209 days.

After the war he then became the founder of the boy scouting movement
throughout the world and a few years later his sister
Agnes founded the Girl Guides movement.

Field Marshall Lord Roberts, V.C.

Born September 30th 1832 at Cawnpore, India
Died November 14th 1914, Saint-Omer, France
Roberts became second Commander in Chief of the
British Army in South Africa from December 1899 to November 1900.
Best known for breaking a succession of British defeats when
on March 13th 1900, the Orange Free State Capital "Bloemfontein"
was captured by Roberts.
He also took Johannesburg, Pretoria and defeated Boer commandos at Bergendal.