Regiments

Durham Light Infantry

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The 1st Battalion sailed on the Cephalonia on 24th October 1899, arrived at the Cape about 18th November, and was sent round to Durban. The following February they stormed Vaal Krantz, coming under heavy fire. After the battalion entered the Transvaal they were chiefly employed on the Natal-Pretoria Railway, and in column work from the railway line towards the Orange River Colony. The names of the men who served in the regiment are listed below
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East Yorkshire Regiment

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The 2nd Battalion arrived at the Cape on 3rd April. Along with the 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd Scots Guards, and 1st Leinster Regiment, they formed the 16th Brigade and part of the VIIth Division. The East Yorkshire Regiment were present in the action at Biddulphsberg on 29th May 1900, but their losses were not severe. The battalion operated in the north-east of the Orange River Colony practically all the time they were in the campaign. The names of the men who served in the regiment a...
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Royal Army Medical Corps

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Until 1898 the Medical Staff Corps and the Medical Staff were two separate organisations. They were reorganised into one Corps, the Royal Army Medical Corps on 23rd June 1898. With the formation of the RAMC medical officers were granted the same rank structure as the rest of the British Army and assumed full executive and administrative responsibility. Only one year after its formation the RAMC was fully committed in the Anglo-Boer War. The names of the men who served in the regiment ar...
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Imperial Yeomanry

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The Imperial Yeomanry was a British volunteer cavalry regiment created on 24 December 1899. The first contingent of recruits contained 550 officers, 10371 men with 20 battalions and four companies, which arrived in South Africa between February and April, 1900. Upon arrival, the regiment was sent throughout the zone of operations. A Royal Warrant asked standing Yeomanry regiments to provide service companies of approximately 115 men each. This new Imperial Yeomanry were to be raised on ...
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