Category: Suffolk Regiment

    Born: 1870, 25, Gorefield Road, Leverington, Cambridgeshire. Died: 2nd November 1900; age: 30; 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 […]

  Born: 1871, Horringer Heath, Suffolk. Died: 6th January 1900; age: 29; KiA at Suffolk Hill, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Residence: 12, Horringer Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 2721. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force.   CENSUS   1881   13, Horringer Road, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. […]

    Born: 1871, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Died: 26th December 1900; age: 29; Died of Enteric Fever after suffering 16 days, at No. 24 Stationary Hospital, Aliwal North, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. ENTERIC FEVER   Enteric Fever (eneterica serotype bacteria) was a rampant bacterial infection during the South Africa Boer War – 1899 – […]

    Died: 1st April 1900, at Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Missing in action and taken prisoner – 6th January 1900, at Suffolk Hill, Colesberg, Northern Cape. Residence: Ely, Cambridgeshire.   John saw service in India 1888 – 1890 with the Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 623. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, […]

    Born: 12th January 1866, Kirton, Suffolk. Died: 6th January 1900; age: 33; KiA at Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Residence: The Street, Falkenham, Suffolk.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 2230. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force.   Clasps Awarded: Cape Colony.   CENSUS   1871   The Street, Falkenham, Suffolk.   […]

Born: 1876, Eye, Suffolk. Died: 8th June 1900; age: 24; Died of Enteric Fever, at No. 3. General Hospital, Kroonstad, 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 […]

    Born: 1879, Stratton St. Michael, Norfolk. Died: 9th March 1901; age: 21; Died of Enteric Fever at Elandsfontein, 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 […]

    Born: 31st July 1881, St. Luke’s, London. Baptised: 3rd September 1882, at St. Clement Church, City Road, Islington. Parents: Mary Ann & Edwin William Thornhill, a Carman, of Radcliffe Gardens, London. Edwin’s brother, Richard William Thornhill, born 16th August 1882, was baptised during the same ceremony. Died: 22nd May 1901; age 19; died […]

  Born: 10th October 1865, Calcutta, Bengal, East Indies. Baptised: 5th December 1865, at Jubbulpore, Bengal. Parents: George Cadogan Thomson & Harriet Anne Thomson. Died: 9th June 1900; age: 34; Committed Suicide – temporarily insane, at Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa. William was taken PoW on the 6th January 1900, at Colesberg. Residence: Fair View, […]

FREDDIE   Born: 1869, Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire. Died: 6th January 1900; KiA at Suffolk Hill, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Residence: 14, Cottage, Shingay, Cambridgeshire.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 2102. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force.   Clasp Awarded: Cape Colony.   CENSUS   1871   Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire.   Freddie was […]