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

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...

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

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...

Hello, I was wondering if someone might be able to help me figure out what the Ribbons on this gentleman were? Thanks you, Malcolm

Hi: my step-grandfather, John Lish Clarke, fought in the Boer War , and I have this photograph of him in uniform which I believe he must have worn in Africa. He ran away from home about 1900, went to S. Africa and joined the Cape Police. He afterwards must have enlisted in the Army I imagine. 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

Excuse my ignorance but I know absolutely nothing about Boer War/South Africa/Zulus. I'm trying to find any info on William Henry White born 1855, Dudley, Worcs. who was a Bandsman in the British Army and fought in South Africa against the Zulus. These are the only details I've got - I do not...

Hi folks, please can anyone tell me if there is a list of recipients of the QSA and KSA. Also I am looking for memorials/monuments to those that fell in the war and to date of my 24000 deaths I have managed to locate just over 20000 of them on a memorial somewhere in the world. I have most of the...