3 Hazzard brothers from Woodford.

[George Robins]

An update as it is some while since I did any more research on this. I was contacted by Ian Smith who is doing research on 2nd Wiltshire Regt. in the Boer war as he had seen my original posting. After some considerable correspondence and matching up records we have established with a fair bit of confidence that three Hazzard brothers were in the 2nd Witshire Regiment at that time in the 2nd Boer War. They were privates John Hale Hazzard, Sydney Hazzard and Meshach Hazzard but can find no trace of my aforesaid Grandfather Isaac Henry Hazzard.
My feeling now is that he was in the Wiltshire Yeomanry, a territorial unit of mounted infantry which arrived in South Africa at about the time of the retreat from Rensburg. His brother John was one of the men taken prisoner at Rensburg and Grandfather named his son Rensburg; was this as a sign off gratitude that his brother had survived.
More research needed on the yeomanry to see if he was one of them.
George

[ladysmith]

George - The nearest name to your grandfather's on the Imperial Yeomanry roll is 8037 Shoeing Smith Harry Hazard 40th (Oxford) Company, 10th Battalion IY.

David

[kaigs]

Hello George John, usual story in those days, officers were on a different plain with other ranks as "canon fodder". Quite often their "deeds" were taken as a matter of course. Where to get info??? There really are only two places, the regiment and the National Archives at Kew in London. Good records were kept by most regiments which are usually held by the regiments that they were amalgamated with.
3584 T Hazzard with the Hampshire regiment died of malaria & dysentery at Komatipoort on 18 June 1901. He is buried at Barbeton where his name appears on the memorial. His death was recored in the Daily Express 21 June 1901