Michael Frederic Rimington was born on this day in 1858 and was sent to South Africa a few months before the outbreak of the South African War.
He raised a local unit of irregular mounted men who were known as Rimington’s Guides. The unit was involved in the Relief of Kimberley, the march to Bloemfontein and Pretoria, and the Battle of Diamond Hill.
Rimington left the unit to re-join the Dragoon Guards, seeing service until the end of the war.
(For medal collectors – his Boer war entitlement, QSA and KSA, had 10 bars, the maximum that could have been achieved during the war.)
