Born: Portsmouth, Hampshire. Died: 12th May 1900, died of Enteric Fever at Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. ENTERIC FEVER Enteric Fever (eneterica serotype bacteria) was a rampant bacterial infection during the South Africa Boer War – 1899 – 1902. This systemic disease, now known as Typhoid Fever, from the bacterium Salmonella typhi, is characterised […]
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BOER WAR
JAMES WILLIAM ROSENDALE
Birth: 1870, Kneesworth, Cambridgeshire. Baptised: 14th August 1870, Kneesworth, Cambridgeshire. Died: 1st November 1902; age: 32; Died at Sea. Residence: High Street, Kneesworth, Cambridgeshire. Occupation: Farm Labourer. Enlistment Date: 11th July 1888. Rank: Private; Service Number: 2242. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force. Clasp Awarded: Transvaal + 1902 […]
W. ROGERS
Died: 10th March 1901; died as a Prisoner of War of Enteric Fever at Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Was taken PoW at Colesberg – 6th January 1900. Rank: Private; Service Number: 4908. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force. Clasps Awarded: Cape Colony, Orange Free State & Transvaal. Soldiers’ […]
ALFRED COOPER
Died: 6th January 1900; KiA at Suffolk Hill, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Rank: Private; Service Number: 5118. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force. Clasps Awarded: Cape Colony. Soldiers’ Effects to Frederick W. Cooper – brother & Elizabeth – step sister. One of the notable Battles with […]
WALTER LEWIS
Born: 1887, Woolverstone, Suffolk. Died: 8th February 1901; age: 24; Died of Enteric Fever, at Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa. ENTERIC FEVER Enteric Fever (eneterica serotype bacteria) was a rampant bacterial infection during the South Africa Boer War – 1899 – 1902. This systemic disease, now known as Typhoid Fever, from the bacterium Salmonella […]
GEORGE JAMES ALLENSBY
Born: 3rd May 1880, St. George, Walworth, South East London. Baptised: 24th October 1880; at St. John the Evangelist Church, Larcom Street, Walworth. Parents: Jane & James Thomas Allensby, of 82, Henshaw Street, Walworth. Died: 26th February 1901; age 20; Died of Disease at Wynberg Military Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Residence: 176, Wornington […]
FERDINAND HUGO ZISSELL
Born: 1877, Hounslow, Middlesex. Baptised: 1st July 1877, at St. Stephen’s Church, Hounslow. Parents: Ann & Georg Louis Zissell, a Baker, of High Street, Hounslow. Died: 13th February 1900; age 24; Died of Enteric Fever, at Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Served 6 years & 200 days. ENTERIC FEVER Enteric Fever (eneterica serotype bacteria) was […]
ERNEST CAMERON WRIGHTSON
Born: 1877, Woodford, Essex. Died: 8th August 1900; age 23; Died of wounds received at Roodepoort at the Military Hospital, Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. Reported in The Standard newspaper – Friday, 22nd June 1900 – as being dangerously wounded on the 28th May 1900 at action at Roodepoort. Residence: Port Elizabeth, South Africa. […]
PHILIP HOPKINS WRIGHT
Born: 1878, Stretham, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Died: 9th March 1902; age: 23; Died of Disease at Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Residence: Grocer’s, 13, Front Street, Stretham, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Occupation: Labourer. Enlistment Date: 31st December 1895. Rank: Private; Service Number: 4356. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion. Clasps Awarded: Transvaal […]
FREDERICK JONAS WRIGHT
Born: 16th October 1873, New Nelson Street, Lowestoft, Suffolk. Died: 14th December 1900; age: 27; Died from wounds received on the 13th December 1900 at Nooitgedacht, Western Cape, South Africa. Residence: 58, Rothsay Road, East Ham, Essex. Occupation: Labourer. Enlistment Date: 19th September 1894; age: 20 years & 11 months. Rank: Gunner; […]