Category: Suffolk Regiment

    Died: 11th August 1900; 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 typhi, is characterised by fever and […]

Born: 1873, Claydon, Suffolk. Died: 10th January 1900: age: 27; Died from Wounds received at Suffolk Hill, Colesberg, on the 6th January 1900. Residence: Claydon, Suffolk.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 2948. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force.   Clasp Awarded: Cape Colony.   1881   The Street, Claydon, Suffolk.   John was […]

    Born: 1870, Sudbury, Suffolk. Died: 6th January 1900; age: 29; KiA at Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Family Residence: 79, North Street, Sudbury, Suffolk. Occupation: a Porter at St. George’s Hospital, London.   Ambrose had served with the Colours for 7 years and 4 years with the Reserves.   Rank: Private; Service Number: […]

    Born: 1871, St. Clement’s, Ipswich. Baptised privately on the 15th August 1871, at St. Clement’s Church, Ipswich – family home at Short Lane, Ipswich. On the 24th November 1872, at St. Clement’s Church, John was received into the church and baptised along with his maternal cousins – Elizabeth Harriet Earthroll, Agnes Mary Ann […]

Known on war records as Thomas Seamons/Seamans.   Born: 1881, Worthington, Leicestershire. Died: 6th January 1900; KiA at Suffolk Hill, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Residence: 124, Clarke Street, Luton, Bedfordshire. Employed: In the service of Mr. Arthur Bates Flemons, a grocer, of 155, Castle Street, Luton. Formerly in the service of Dr. Joseph Anthony […]

    Born: 15th April 1870, Washbrook, Suffolk. Baptised: 22nd May 1870, at Washbrook, Suffolk. Parents: William & Hannah Scott. Died: 7th February 1901; age: 30; Died of Tubercle of Lung at Bloemfontein Hospital, Free State, South Africa. Residence: Washbrook, Suffolk.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 2513. Regiment: 8th Mounted Infantry, Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, […]

Born: 1873, Lakenheath, Suffolk. Died: Valentine’s Day, 1901; age: 29; Died of Dysentery at Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa. Residence: Cemetery Road, Lakenheath, Suffolk.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 2876. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force.   Clasps Awarded: Cape Colony, Orange Free State & Transvaal.   CENSUS   1881   Poshford, Lakenheath, […]

    Born: 1873, Combs, Suffolk. Died: 6th January 1900; age: 26; KiA at Suffolk Hill, Colesberg, Northern Cape, South Africa. Residence: Combs, Suffolk.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 3090. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force.   Clasp Awarded: Cape Colony.   CENSUS   1881   Mill, Brad Street, Combs, Suffolk.   Joseph […]

HARRY Born: 26th December 1873, Garden Place, Ballingdon, Essex. Died: 23rd April 1900; age: 27; Died of Dysentery – 13 days, at No. 3 Stationary Hospital, De Aar, Northern Cape, South Africa. Residence: 71, Ballingdon Street, Ballingdon cum Brundon, Essex.   Rank: Private; Service Number: 3004. Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 1st Battalion, South Africa Field Force. […]

  Born: 1871, Woolpit, Suffolk. Baptised: St. Mary the Virgin Church, Woolpit, Suffolk. Died: 3rd February 1901; age: 28; 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 […]