Spencer, Robert Cheney
Regiment: Kitchener's Horse
Rank: Trooper
Service No: 3288
Boer War service: Not known
Date of enlistment: Not known
Date of discharge: 14 Sept 1900
Reason for discharge: Medically Unfit
Other information: May have also served in Duke of Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles
Awards
Queen's South Africa
Cape Colony
Born: 1860...
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Smale, John Noel
Smale, John Noel
Regiment: Imperial Yeomanry (Shropshire 13th Company 5th Battalion) and was seconded to Colonial Light Horse.
Rank: Lance Corporal (Trooper when serving with Colonial Light Horse)
Service No: 1298 (1031 when serving with Colonial Light Horse)
Boer War service: 2 Feb 1900 to 10 Jun 1901
Date of enlistment: 4 Jan 1900
Date of discharge: 18 Jun 1901
Reason for dis...
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Prodger, Joseph Thomas
Prodger, Joseph Thomas
Regiment: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Rank: Private
Service No: 7288
Boer War service: 3 Mar 1900 to 30 May 1901
Date of enlistment: 16 Jan 1900
Date of discharge: 4 Jul 1901
Reason for discharge: Termination of Engagement
Other information: Received gunshot wound to the arm during this campaign. Joseph served in WW1 - more information can be found on our Great War site.
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Kelly, Joseph
Kelly, Joseph
Regiment: Imperial Yeomanry (Shropshire 13th Company 5th Battalion)
Rank: Private
Service No: 1313
Boer War service: 3 Feb 1900 to 31 Jul 1900
Date of enlistment: 4 Jan 1900
Date of discharge: 18 Oct 1900
Reason for discharge: His own request. Services no longer required in South Africa
Other information:
Awards
Queen's South Africa Medal
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Royal Engineers
During the Boer War the Royal Engineers were constantly in the thick of the fighting. Half of the 37th company were on the shell-riven and bullet-swept summit of Spion Kop on 24th January. The 7th company, with the Canadian Regiment, made the last grand advance at Paardeberg on the night of the 26th February.
The Army List of December 1900 shows the following units as in South Africa: The 5th to the 12th, the 17th, 20th, 23rd, 26th, 29th, 31st, 37th, 38th, 42nd, 45th, and 47th companies...
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Gill, Ernest
Gill, Ernest
Regiment: King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Rank: Private
Service No: 7291 (previously 3075)
Boer War service: 3 Mar 1900 to 9 May 1901
Date of enlistment: 10 Jan 1900
Date of discharge: 16 May 1901
Reason for discharge: Termination of Engagement
Other information: Ernest served in WW1; further information about this service can be found on our Great War site
Awards
Queen's South Af...
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Hayes, Percy Henry
Hayes, Percy Henry
Regiment: British South Africa Police, Cape Police and Johannesburg Mounted Rifles
Rank: Trooper
Service No: 2536, 829 & 2608
Boer War service: Not known
Date of enlistment: Not known
Date of discharge: Not known
Reason for discharge: Not known
Other information: Percy is commemorated on the Whitchurch WW1 Town Memorial. No WW1 military records...
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Jones, Amos
Jones, Amos
Regiment: Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 4152
Boer War service: 18 Jul 1900 to 28 Mar 1901
Date of enlistment: 20 Nov 1893
Date of discharge: 15 Aug 1901
Reason for discharge: Medically unfit
Other information: Amos spent time in 3 South African hospitals suffering from a cough and hemoptysis...
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Gordon Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders were officially formed in 1881 when two Scottish Regiments the 75th and 92nd were amalgamated during the Childers Reforms.
The 1st Battalion sailed on the Cheshire on 9th November 1899, and arrived at the Cape on 28th November. They saw action at the Battle of Magersfontein in December 1899 and were again in action at Doornkop, where they suffered severe losses, in May 1900
The 2nd Battalion was one of the four infantry battalions which, al...
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Royal Munster Fusiliers
Created in 1881 by the amalgamation of two former East India Company regiments and consisted of two battalions. It was disbanded in 1922 on the establishment of the Irish Free State.
The 1st Battalion arrived in South Africa before the war commenced and spent the whole of the Boer War (1899-1902) in the country.
The 2nd Battalion was brought from India in December 1901, and took part in the closing scenes of the campaign, garrisoning blockhouses in the northeast of the Orange River ...
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