Category: BOER WAR

BOER WAR

ALBERT HARRY BEDWELL

ALBERT HARRY BEDWELL

    Born: 1868, Kirkley, Suffolk. Died: 14th November 1900; age: 32; Died of Peritonitis, at Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Residence: Holmdale, Cotmer Road, Carlton Colville, Suffolk. Occupation: Carpenter & Joiner.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 3961. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion.   Clasps Awarded: Cape Colony, Orange Free State & Transvaal.   CENSUS   […]

GEORGE RICHARD KEMP BARRETT

GEORGE RICHARD KEMP BARRETT

Born: 1879, Wormley, Hertfordshire. Baptised: 10th August 1879, at Wormley, Hertfordshire. Parents: Mary Ann & George Richard Barrett, a Telegraph’s Linesman. Died: 6th September 1902; age 23; Died of Disease, Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa. Residence: Wormley, Hertfordshire. Occupation: a Labourer. Enlistment Date: 19th August 1897.   Military Court: trail at Dover – 11th August […]

SAMUEL BARNES

SAMUEL BARNES

Born: 1871, Witchford, Cambridgeshire. Died: 6th January 1900; age 28; KiA at Suffolk  Hill, Colesburg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Residence: Haddenham, Cambridgeshire.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 2196. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion.   Clasps Awarded: Cape Colony.   Brother to JOHN BARNES.   CENSUS   1871   Witchford, Cambridgeshire.   Samuel was 2 months old […]

JOHN BARNES

JOHN BARNES

  Born: 1882, ‘Mingay House’ Wilburton, Cambridgeshire. Died: 22nd December 1901; age 19; Died of Enteric Fever, at Pretoria, Gauteng, 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 […]

FREDERICK CHARLES BARKER

FREDERICK CHARLES BARKER

    Born: 1877, Parham, Suffolk. Died: 4th January 1901; age: 23; Died of Disease at Machadodorp, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Residence: Swilland, Suffolk.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 4272. Regiment: 19th (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars.   Clasps Awarded: Belfast, Orange Free State & Laings’s Nek + Queen’s South Africa Medal.   CENSUS   1881   […]

ALBERT FREDERICK BARKER

ALBERT FREDERICK BARKER

    Born: 1866, Isleham, Cambridgeshire. Died: 28th June 1900; age: 34; 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 […]

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