Which regiment is this?

[janeld]

I am tracing my family history and have come to a brick wall with my great grandpa, Alfred Henry Ward. All I know is that he lived in Birmingham 1911, and died in WW1.
I have however a photograph of him in uniform dated 1901 ,mandalay, Burma.and a bible with the inscription "1900-1901 south africa". This puts him in the time frame for the boer war.
The bible inscription also has written beow it S.S Canada. I can find no reference to this ship being linked to south africa??
Any information would be gratefully received.
The photograph is attached
<a href="http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/janeld_album/?action=view&current=AlfredHenryWard1901024.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/janeld_album/AlfredHenryWard1901024.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

[Peter Goodey]

This link ought to work

http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/janeld_album/th_AlfredHenryWard1901024.jpg

Any chance you could scan it at a higher resolution?

[janeld]

i will have to get the photo back from mom to re-scan, what did I do wrong with the url address? I'm new to this.

[janeld]

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/janeld_album/AlfredHenryWard1901024.jpg
does this work?

[Alan Welsford]

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/janeld_album/AlfredHenryWard1901024.jpg
does this work?


It works fine now - no need to get picture back!

I can't answer the questions, though :o

[Peter_uk_can]

http://http://www.greatships.net/canada.html (www.greatships.net/canada.html)

You will read hear that S.S Canada was used as a troopship during the Boer War

Uniform.
Possibly Lieutenant Royal Navy after 1885 in South Africa.

Google "Boer War" with "white uniform" in advanced.

A few books are reviewed and details therein

[Geoffers]

Alfred Henry Ward....lived in Birmingham 1911, and died in WW1.

To try and think of a way to find out more about your chap........

Does he appear in the CWGC web-site?

Do you know how old he was when he died?

Do you have his marriage certificate? When did he marry, how old was he, what was his occupation?

He was obviously awarded some medal, do you still have this in the family, or know what it was?

Have you tried the medal rolls at The National Archives?

The 'Soldiers who died in the Great War database includes:

Alfred Henry WARD, Sgt 5848 1st Bn Border Regt
Born Harborne, Birmingham
KIA 1st July 1916 (one of the many on that day)
Theatre of war - France and Flanders

Of course, he may not be your chap, but if you can answer any of the above questions, we may be able to either eliminate this one, or confirm him to be yours.

[janeld]

Thanks for all your input guys,much appreciated.
Alfred was married in 1911 aged 29 and his occcupation is 'engineers painter'
sorry i dont know anything about a medal.
As he was living in ladywood, a stones throw away from harborne when he was married, this could be the right chap.

Sorry for my ignorance but what does B n stand for?

[Geoffers]

Sorry for my ignorance but what does B n stand for?

Bn = Battalion