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<p>[QUOTE="Silver, post: 2506739, member: 6202"]Your family have seen a lot of active military service! </p><p><br /></p><p>The medal that includes a bar for the seige of Kimberley has an amazing number of bars. My paternal Grandmother was a small child in Kimberley during the seige and, with other children, was lowered down the Big Hole in a basket as a form of protection. (I think those cables that one sees criss-crossing the mine had gondolas hanging from them constructed like baskets).</p><p><br /></p><p>My father served in WW2 as a young man in his early twenties with the Kimberley/Imperial Light Horse regiment in North Africa and Italy. </p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for all your information.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Silver, post: 2506739, member: 6202"]Your family have seen a lot of active military service! The medal that includes a bar for the seige of Kimberley has an amazing number of bars. My paternal Grandmother was a small child in Kimberley during the seige and, with other children, was lowered down the Big Hole in a basket as a form of protection. (I think those cables that one sees criss-crossing the mine had gondolas hanging from them constructed like baskets). My father served in WW2 as a young man in his early twenties with the Kimberley/Imperial Light Horse regiment in North Africa and Italy. Thank you for all your information.[/QUOTE]
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