c.1895

Lithograph by Burnett.

Cape Mounted Riflemen saw service from 1878-1913.
In 1878, the FAMP were fully militarised, as a unit of the Colonial Forces, and renamed Cape Mounted Riflemen.

The CMR were involved in several of the local conflicts, which directly involved the Cape Colony.

In 1879, the CMR fought in the Moorosi campaign, where they gained much distinction. They also fought in the Basutoland Gun War (1880-1881), the Matabeleland campaign (1893-1894), the Bechuanaland campaign in 1897, and the Second Boer War (1899-1902). During these wars, the CMR came to comprise the dominant portion of the whole of the Cape Forces. As before, during peacetime the CMR served as a police force.

280mm x 235mm including mountboard.

R1,000