Forum: Boer Wars - (1880-1881) & (1899-1902) suggest (1880-1902)

I am researching a Canadian Augustinian Nun, Sister Saint Antoine de Padoue (Birth name Marie-Louise Ozina Desroches). I have details of her early and religious life up to her appointment by the Canadian Red Cross as Head Nurse of the Convent at Escourt, Natal, South Africa in 1899, to tend to the...

Hello, I have transcribed the Railway Pioneer Regiment (WO 126/106-111). I have a copy of all the images and am more than happy to do any look-up's... Regards, Malcolm

Hello, I have just finished transcribing the Imperial Light Horse and Imperial Light Infantry WO 126/55-65 and I am happy to do any look-up's. Regards, Malcolm

Hi This is my first time on this site and I'm looking for info about John's service in the Imperial Light Horse, Cape Colony for 2 years and 9 months - as declared on his Attestation Papers for WW1 Service with the (British) Army Service Corps at the ripe old age of almost 45! Can anyone...

Good day fellow Boer war enthusiasts, please can anyone help me? My database of all known British dead for the Boer War, which is open to everyone, has a few gaps in it that "say" died in the UK which would probably indicate they died in a military hospital there. Can anyone suggest where I can...

I am trying to find information about my grandfather William Henry Middleton born in Dudley in 1874, died in Niagara Falls Ontario Canada 1941. The family story is that he ran away at 14 and joined either the Merchant Marine or Army was sent to India where they discovered his age and sent him...

My interest in the Boer war comes from the story that my Uncle Ren was named after a place in South Africa called Rensburg where grandfather fought. Now I have found that Grandfather Isaac Hazzard was there and so were his two brothers John and Meshac and from a diary from John from 1898/9 a...

I'm trying to help Brian Hobin with a query about F Croft in another thread. I've linked to the other thread but it's not necessary (or recommended! :biggrin:) that you read the thread in order to answer my query in this thread. Brian has been sent one document, and I have found that plus...

Hi, This is a great site with a wealth of information on it. I was wondering if anyone would be able to identify this uniform to fill in some gaps. The solider would be Patrick Cavanagh born in Ireland and possibly conscripted to fight in the Boer war. He came to the US in 1900 so it would...

Hello I'm Zani and I'm new. I am having great difficulty tracking my husband's grandfather's ancestry. What I have is the following: Arthur Walker Born in London on 29 March 1886 Educated at Highfield College, Chertsey, England Son of William Walker (we don't know what the mother's name...

Family story indicates that Patrick Sheridan of Breffni Terrace in Cavan town enlisted in service during WWI. Not sure if he enlisted under the British forces or the Irish Free State forces. According to the story he never returned to Cavan. Another story has him in England or Scotland. Is there...

My database of all known British dead is now complete and I am currently comparing the information with that officially issued by the War Office at the time; taken from newspapers. However I cannot get hold of WO casualty lists for the period October 1899 to end of April 1900. I understand the...

I am trying to get the death certificate of a James Hutchinson Lewis who died/was killed in the Boer War. He came from Nottingham and in St Mary's Church Nottingham on the War memorial under Robin Hood Rifles Boer War there is a Pte J H Lewis died Oct 23 1901 at Krugersdorp....

My Uncle Alfred John Gregory 8980 served in the 32nd coy Imperial Yoemanry from Jan 1900 to May 1900 when he died of Entric fever would he have been intitled to a Q.S.M. and if so would there be any record of this . bev833

My great grandfather Frederick Duke-Norris apparently fought in the Boer War. He apparently fought for the British although was here in South Africa in the late 1800`s, early 1900`s. All the information I have on him is that he married Katherine Duke-Norris and they had 13 children & had a farm in...

Hi Just wondering if anybody has a copy of this book who would be willing to look up the record for a Great Uncle who we have just found out died? at? Mafeking. Apparently he was wounded at Kaalfontein in May '01 and subsequently contracted a disease at Mafeking in Jan'02

Please can somebody help identify the following uniform? We believe it may have been from the Boer War. http://www. militaryforums.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=41415 Thanks

I need help in finding a soldier suposed to have died in the Boer War in 1900, however his wife served him with divorce papers in 1901! His name was Donald Polson Anderson, born 1849 in Old Macher, Scotland. Christina

How would you find out if an ancestor fought in the Boer War? He married my great aunt in 1897 and is no where to be found in the 1901 census but his wife and children are living with my great grandfather in Darlington Co. Durham. He died in 1909. Robsnicta

I wonder if anyone can help? I have found my grandfather Edgar Jenkins,a coalminer, up until the 1891 census,aged14yrs, but by 1910 there is no trace of him.He married my grandmother in 1904 in Pontypool,Wales and in the following few years he and the family moved to South Africa. .I don't know if...