And while I'm on my soap box re medals - South Atlantic Medal (?), for those who never went further South than Ascension Island, seriously? There was a greater threat to life from Guatemala flying up and down the Belize/Guat border?
I should think the troops who'd slogged across the veld getting picked off by Boer farmers probably took a similar cynical attitude to the recipients of the Queen's Mediterranean Medal (see post #48), whose main risk was catching a dose of clap down in The Gut in Valetta.