South Africa Medal 1834-53 impressed naming H WALLER 7TH DRAGN GDS. Some edge bruising and contact marks.
The 7th Dragoon Guards arrived in South Africa in 1843 where they took part in the Second Kaffir War and were engaged in the only cavalry charge of the wars when, in June 1843, they found a considerable body of Kaffirs under Chief Seyolo. Wielding their heavy sabres the Dragoons scattered the Kaffir masses and the carbines of the following Cape Mounted Riflemen did great execution. The battle of Guanga, as it came to be called, cost the enemy some four hundred warriors. Casualties to the 7th D.G. were one officer killed and two wounded, and nine ORs wounded. The engagement was a turning point in the rebellion and the last major action. After some minor excursions over the next eighteen months, the regiment attended the ceremony of surrender at King Williams Town in December 1847 and sailed for home on 13 April 1848.
