ADCOCK

H W

Private, Prince Alfred’s Mounted Infantry

AGER

W

Private, Imperial Light Horse

AINGER

L

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

ALLEN

W

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery

ALLISON

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

ANNISON

E R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

ARCHDALE

G F

Captain, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company. Not listed in The Last Post.

ARMINGER

S

Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

ASHTON

H

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BAKER

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BAKER

F S

Private, Royal Sussex

BAKER

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BALLAM

J

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

BANKS

H

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BARBER

Arthur

2nd Lieutenant, 50th Company, Imperial Yeomanry. Died of enteric at Springfontein on 25th May 1901. He was at first a trooper in the 44th Company, Imperial Yeomanry (Loyal Suffolk Hussars), and went out to South Africa in February 1900. He was invalided home, but recovering, was granted a 2nd lieutenantcy in the 50th Company in February 1901 and returnedv to South Africa. He was, however, again taken ill a few weeks after his arrival, and died.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

BARBER

F

Private, Gordon Highlanders

BARDELL

J

Private, Cape Pioneers

BARHAM

G E

Lance Corporal, 17th Lancers, Cavalry

BARNARD

R W

Lance Corporal, 1st Royal Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

BARNES

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BARRETT

E

Private, Thorneycroft Mounted Infantry

BARRETT

F

Private, Royal Scots

BARRON

J

Private 3057, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Killed on 11/12/1899 at Magersfontein. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland

BATTERICK

F

Lance Corporal, 8th Hussars, Cavalry

BENNETT

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BETTS

W

Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery

BLACKWELL

G

Private, 7th Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

BLEACH

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BLOOMFIELD

W D

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

BOOIST

G

Corporal, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BOYCE

W

Private, Suffolk

BRIGGS

R W

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery

BRIGHTY

C

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BRINDLEY

J W

Private, 20th Hussars, Cavalry

BROWN

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BROWN

C K

Staff Sergeant, 20th Hussars, Cavalry

BURNHAM

E

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

BURROWS

J R

[Listed as Private on Bedfordshire Regiment memorial, Lance Corporal on Norwich Memorial and Corporal in 'The Boer War Casualty Roll 1899-1902' by Alexander Palmer.] 6032, 2^nd Battalion (Mounted Infantry), Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action near Reitz 6th June 1901. See also Bedford Memorial

BUTCHER

T

Driver 12700, Army Service Corps. Died of disease at Standerton 13th January 1901.

BUXTON

Roland Henry

Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment (Mounted Infantry), killed near Sterkfontein 13th December 1901. Born November 1874, educated at Harrow, entered the Norfolk Regiment June 1896, promoted lieutenant December 1897. Served in West Africa in operations on the Niger, 1897-98, being mentioned in despatches 23rd May 1899, and was employed with the West African Frontier Force from February 1898 to February 1900. He then proceeded to South Africa and saw service there during 1900-1901.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

CALLABY

W J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CALLOW

W R

Sergeant, Manchester

CALTON

F

Private, 13th Hussars, Cavalry

CANHAM

B R

Lance Corporal, 5th Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

CARTER

H

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CATCHPOLE

R

Private, Seaforth Highlanders

CATES

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CAUSTON

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CAWDRON

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CAWSTON

Cecil Faulkner

Lieutenant, 18th Hussars, Cavalry, died of wounds received 2nd February 1901, received in action at Roodepoort. He was the son of George Cawston, Esq., one of the founders of the British South Africa Company; born in April 1878, educated at Eton (Mr. Vaughan’s), and entered the 18th Hussars April 1898. He joined his Regiment in the spring of 1899 in Natal, and was employed before the war surveying the country round Ladysmith. He was at Dundee when the war broke out, and was present at the battle of Talana Hill and in the retirement to Ladysmith, where he served throughout the siege. He was invalided home with dysentery, but, recovering, returned to South Africa in September 1900, and was with his Regiment until he was mortally wounded while in front of a patrol which he was leading.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

CHANDLER

F

Private, 1st Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

CHAPLIN

J R

2nd Class Staff Sergeant 7744. Committed suicide while temporarily insane 15 April1902 at Klersdorp. Also commemorated on RAMC Memorial, Gun Hill, Aldershot.

CHAPLIN

W

Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CHIPPERFIELD

E J

Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CHURCHMAN

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CLARIDGE

R O

Lance Corporal, 18th Hussars, Cavalry

CLARKE

G

Private, 18th Hussars, Cavalry

CLARKE

G

Private, Kings Royal Rifles

CLARKSON

C

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

COATES

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

COCKADAY

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

COLEMAN

J H

Private, Connaught Rangers

COMER

J

Lance Corporal, Manchester

COOK

Private, Baden Powell’s Police

COOK

J J

Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery

COOKE

W W

Private, South African Constabulary

COOPER

A A

Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CORBLE

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

CORNELL

W

Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

COSSEY

W

Private, Coldstream Guards

CRICK

W

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

CROSS

H H

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

CROWE

F

Lance Corporal, 19th Hussars, Cavalry

CUBITT

A J

Private, Coldstream Guards

DACK

H

Sergeant, Royal Field Artillery

DANIELS

W G

Lance Corporal, Coldstream Guards

DAY

A E

Corporal, 19th Hussars, Cavalry

DAY

Charles Russell

Major, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, died from wounds received in action near Paardeberg, on 18th February 1900, during the pursuit of Cronje. He was the only son of the Rev. Russell Day, rector of Horstead, Norwich, was born April, 1860, and educated at Eton (Mr. Carter’s). He entered the Oxfordshire Light Infantry from the 3rd Royal Lancashire Militia, January, 1882, promoted captain July, 1889, and major October 1899. Major Day was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was well known in the musical world. In 1890 he was employed in connection with the musical department of the Royal Military Exhibition at South Kensington, and in 1892 served as a member of the English Committee of the Vienna International Musical Exhibition; he also served in a similar capacity for the Paris Musical Exhibition of 1900. He was the author of “Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and The Deccan.” Major Day accompanied his battalion to South Africa in December 1899, and was present at the fighting at Klip Kraal, where his field glasses were broken to pieces by a bullet. He also took part in the Relief of Kimberley; and at Paardeberg was struck down when going to the assistance of Corporal Knowles, who was wounded, and whose life he saved. After he had been wounded, and while being attended to, Major Day’s first thought was for the Corporal, adding “never mind me.” He is buried at Paardeberg; his funeral was most pathetic. Among many others attending were some thirty men of his battalion who had been wounded — a sad picture. One who was present adds “not many of us returned with dry eyes.”

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

DEATH

F

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

DERISLEY

C H

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

DEXTER

G

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

DOWSING

G

Lance Corporal, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

DURRANT

R W

Sergeant, Cape Cycle Corps

DYKE

G F

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

ECCLESTONE

F S

Lance Corporal, 16th Lancers, Cavalry

ECCLESTONE

H H

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

EDWARDS

L

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

EMMS

A

Private, Rifle Brigade

ESCRITT

H

Private, Lancashire Fusiliers

EVERETT

A G

Corporal, 19th Hussars, Cavalry

EVERETT

J A

Lance Corporal, 5th Lancers, Cavalry

FAGG

S

Corporal, 7th Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

FARROW

R H

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

FIRMAN

W

Gunner, Royal Field Artillery

FLOWERDEW

A B

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

FORDER

A T

Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

FOSTER

E M

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

FRANCIS

G J

Private, 1st Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

FROST

J

Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery

FROST

W W

Driver, Army Service Corps

GAMBLE

R B

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

GASKIN

H G

Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

GIRLING

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

GOODSON

C E

Private, 4th Hussars, Cavalry

GOODWIN

B

Private, Coldstream Guards

GOWLING

G J

Driver, Royal Horse Artillery

GRANVILLE

W C

Private, Grenadier Guards

GRAY

W

Corporal, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

GREEN

G

Private, Northumberland Fusiliers

GREEN

H

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

GREENFIELD

-

Sergeant, Royal Garrison Artillery

GROOM

W

Corporal, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

GROVE

Arthur Langton

2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, died of wounds received in action at Buffelsvlei 12th March 1902. He was the second son of the Rev. W. H. Grove, 15, Rothsay Road, Bedford, late of Cliffe Rectory, Rochester. He was born in June 1874, and educated at Winchester. He served in the ranks for 3½ years, proceeded to South Africa at the close of 1899 and was present at the relief of Ladysmith where he was wounded. He was twice mentioned in despatches, London Gazette, 8th February and 10th September, 1901, was awarded the medal for distinguished conduct in the field, and granted a commission as a 2nd lieutenant September, 1901, in the Norfolk Regiment.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

GRUMMETT

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

GUDGEON

J S

Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery

HALESWORTH

A W

Corporal, Liverpool

HALLS

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

HARBORD

Horatio

2nd. Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, was killed in action at Elandslaagte, near Klerksdorp, 25th February 1902, during an attack by the Boers on a convoy. He was the second son of the late Hon. Ralph Harbord - a brother of Lord Suffield - by his marriage with Elizabeth Pole, second daughter of E. W. H. Schenley, Esq., Prince’s Gate. He was born in March, 1875, educated privately, and was fond of all sports, and a good rider. He first served as a trooper in the Leicestershire Yeomanry in 1900, and was granted a commission in the 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers in March 1901. 2nd Lieut. Harbord served in the operations in Cape Colony, north of the Orange River, also in the operations in Orange River Colony. He is buried at Klerksdorp.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

HARDEN

G

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

HARDINGHAM

H

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

HARDY

H

Private, 7th Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

HARE

H

Lance Corporal, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

HARWARD

J T

Private, Lincoln

HAWES

Herbert

Private 2313, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Also on the Bloemfontein Memorial.

HAYLETT

J W

Able Seaman 170005, H.M.S. Tartar, Royal Navy. Died of disease in Natal 25th February 1900. Awarded the QSA with Bars for Tugela Heights and Relief of Ladysmith.

HELPS

S W

Drummer, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

HELSHAM

Somerville

Lieutenant, 11th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. Killed in action at Bankfontein 25th November 1901. He whad only been appointed to the Imperial yeomanry on 4th October 1901, with rank of lieutenant in the army.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

HENDRY

J J

Colour Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

HILL

A

Lance Corporal, 5th Lancers, Cavalry

HINTON

F M

Driver, Royal Field Artillery

HIPKIN

R J

Bombardier, Royal Garrison Artillery Prince of Wales’s Own

HIPPERSON

H

Driver, Army Service Corps

HIPPERSON

R A

Private, Devon

HISCOCKS

C A

Private, 2nd Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

HOFFMAN

H

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

HOPPER

A S

Sergeant, Ceylon Mounted Infantry

HOWLETT

G

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery

HUDSON

Anthony Thomas Philip

Major, p.s.c., 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment, died 20th December 1901, of wounds received in action at Elandspruit the previous day. Born February 1858, he entered the 63rd Foot in January, 1878, being promoted lieutenant 1879, captain 1887, and major January, 1898. He was D.A.A.G., Mauritius, from March, 1895, to June, 1900. He then served in South Africa, and was commandant at Witklip. Major Hudson was mentioned in despatches by General Lord Kitchener, 8th March 1902, London Gazette, 25th April 1892, for “gallant conduct in the repulse of the Boer attack” on the day he was mortally wounded.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

INKSON

Harry Garner

Company Sergeant Major 7833, Army Service Corps. Born 1866 in Docking Registration District. Died of disease 7th May 1901 at Johannesburg.

ISBILL

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

IVES

G F

Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

JACKSON

E

Private, 1st Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

JARVIS

G W

Staff Sergeant, Royal Army Medical Corps. Also commemorated on RAMC Memorial, Gun Hill, Aldershot.

JELLY

F A

Sapper, Royal Engineers

JOHNSON

E G

Lance Corporal, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

JOLLIFFE

A C H

Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

KELLETT- LONG

J

Corporal, Imperial Yeomanry

KELLY

G

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

KELSEY

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

KEMP

C

Gunner, Royal Field Artillery

KING

R

Private, West Riding

KINGSBURY

W D

Bombardier, Royal Field Artillery

KIRK

J

Private , 3rd Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

KNIGHTS

G

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

KUPPERS

W

Private, Cape Mounted police

LACCOHEE

D

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

LANGSTONE

W

Driver, Army Service Corps

LAST

T

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

LATTIMORE

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

LAWRENCE

F G

Private, Brabant’s Horse

LAWS

E

Driver, Army Service Corps

LAXEN

Henry Fenn

Corporal 3080, 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Wounded 13th December 1900 and died of those wounds 28th December 1900 at Nooigedacht, Pretoria. Aged 26. Born Aylsham.Buried at Pretoria. Grave 347. Details listed in Aylsham parish church on an oval marble tablet. See also Aylsham Church

THIS TABLET
IS PLACED HERE
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE
OF ALL THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR THE BRITISH EMPIRE
IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
AMONG WHOM WAS
CORPORAL HENRY FENN LAXEN
OF THE 2ND BATTALION
NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS
(A NATIVE OF THIS TOWN)
WHO FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED
AT NOOIGEDACHT
AND DIED DECR 28TH 1900
AGED 26 YEARS
"IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN ONCE TO DIE"

LEE

D

Sergeant, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

LEEDER

R

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

LEVERIDGE

T

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

LEVY

E S

Corporal, Army Service Corps

LINCOLN

H

Driver, Royal Field Artillery

LINES

H

Private, Scottish Horse

LITTLEBOY

C

Corporal, Kings Royal Rifles

LITTLEWOOD

C

Drummer, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

LLOYD

H

Private, Rifle Brigade

LOAKMAN

H

Private, York & Lancaster

LOWERY

E J

Private, 19th Hussars, Cavalry

MACK

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

MAJORAM

J

Private, South Wales Borderers

MARSHALL

T

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

MARSHAM

Hon. Douglas Henry

Captain, 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, attached to the Protectorate Regiment, was killed in action at Cannon Kopje, in the defence of Mafeking, 31st October 1899. He was the third son of Earl Romney, was born 1871, and educated at Charter-house. Before joining the Bedfordshire Regiment, he served for some time in the Bechuanaland Border Police. He is mentioned in the despatch of Major-General Baden-Powell, 18th May 1900, London Gazette, 8th February 1901. He is buried in the cemetery at Mafeking, and his name is inscribed on the tablet in the War Memorial Cloister erected at Charterhouse.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

MASON

C J

Sergeant, Marshall’s Horse

MAYES

G

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

MAYES

G

Corporal, Army Service Corps

MELBOURNE

J

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery

MILES

A

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

MINNS

J

Private, Lincolnshire Regiment. See also Lincoln Cathedral Boer War Memorial

MOIN

J J

Sergeant, 7th Hussars, Cavalry

MOORE

D W

Private 7302, 1st Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. See also Stirling Castle South African Memorial

MOORE

G

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

MOORE

H J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

MOORE

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

MOORE

R

Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

MULLINGER

W

Private, Coldstream guards

MURIEL

Charles Leslie

Captain, 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, was killed in action at Spion Kop in the operations on the Upper Tugela, 24th January 1900. He was born February, 1866, and entered the Middlesex Regiment in February 1887, being promoted lieutenant in May, 1889, and captain in October, 1895. He was adjutant of his battalion from October, 1895-99. At Spion Kop he was first shot through the cheek whilst giving a cigarette to a wounded man. He then continued to lead his company, and was shortly afterwards shot through the brain.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

NEALE

E G

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

NELSON

S W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

NEWSTEAD

T

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

NEWTON

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

NICHOLS

H

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

OLDMAN

W

Lance Corporal, Kings Royal Rifles

OLIVER

Douglas Morrison

Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, died at Myistroom, 27th August 1900, of wounds received in action two days previously. He was born September, 1874, and entered the Norfolk Regiment in April, 1895, from the South-East of Scotland Artillery (Southern Division, Royal Garrison Artillery, being promoted lieutenant September, 1897. He belonged to the 1st battalion in India and was serving at the depot at Norwich, but volunteering for active service he was sent to South Africa in July, 1900.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

The details below have been kindly supplied by Keith Sampson and the photograph is Copyright © The Morrison Family.

Douglas Morrison Oliver was born 11th September 1874 on the family 2000 acre estate at Lochside House, Morebattle, Roxburghshire, Scotland, the Son of Robert Oliver and Margaret Oliver (Nee Strickland).

The 1881 Census shows Douglas aged six years living on the estate with his parents and sisters Louise Caroline Oliver aged eleven years and Margaret Annie Oliver aged 9 years and 31 estate workers. The Estate was mainly arable and harboured a great variety of bird life that the young Douglas would hunt and have stuffed for his collection.

On the 17th September 1892, shortly after his eighteenth birthday he was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the Militia Royal Artillery, The Haddington Artillery (Southern Division), being gazetted on the 23 Sept. 1892. In September 1894 while with the Militia he passed the Aldershot Officers courses and shortly afterwards enlisted in the regular Army joining the 1st Battalion Norfolk Regiment as a second Lieutenant on the 3rd of April 1895 and immediately embarked to join the Regiment in Allahabad, India. He was recorded as being 5 foot nine inches on his attestation form. During the latter part of 1895 passed the range finding course and returned to Aldershot where he passed for Lieutenant and returned to India.

The Norfolk’s completed their posting in India and embarked for home arriving on the 26th January 1897. Douglas completed a course in Signalling and was gazetted as Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, Norfolk’s on 15th November 1897 aged 23 years, being gazetted in November. He is recorded as being in Officers’ Quarters at Talavera barracks, Aldershot on the Basingstoke electoral register.

During 1898 Doulas passed his exam in Hindustani and embarked again for India with the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment on the 4th January 1899 being barracked this time in Bombay.

Around October 1899 Lt. Oliver returned home on leave and also passed a French Language exam before departing London destine for Bombay on the passenger ship ‘Valetta’ on the 21st November 1899. He returned Home again on the 16th December and is recorded on the 3rd April 1900 at the Regimental Depot awaiting transfer to the 2nd Battalion, Norfolk regiment having requested to serve in South African Boer War conflict. On the 19th June his request was granted and he embarked on the ‘Saint Andrew’ to join the 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in South Africa.

While operating as an intelligence officer attached to Lt. Colonel Hickman he was wounded at a mission station in Warmbath in the Transvaal on the 25th August 1900. He was operating outside the British line of outposts and encounters a Boer Despatch rider near a mission house and a one on one shootout ensued, Douglas and the Boer were wounded. Douglas was then nursed by a German Missionary, Maria Brose (nee Jensen) until his death. He had come to the attention of both Generals Baden Powell and Padget for his zeal, devotion to duty and adventurous spirit..

On the 27th August 1900 he succumbed to his wounds and Died at Nylstroom, his death was gazetted on 7th Sep. 1900.

Lieutenant Douglas Morrison Oliver was awarded the Queens South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal.

OLLEY

W W

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

OSBORNE

L

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

OVERTON

A D

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

PAGE

T

Private, 5th Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

PAGE

W

Corporal, Royal Field Artillery

PARKE

W H

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery

PARKER

H

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

PATMORE

W H

Sergeant, Royal Horse Artillery

PEARCE

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

PIGG

A

Corporal, Thorneycroft Mounted Infantry

PILCH

E F

Corporal, 1st Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

PILCH

H E

Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

PLAYFORD

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

POLL

H

Private, Rifle brigade

PONDER

A J

Private, 1st Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

POWELL

J

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

PRENTICE

E

Private, 19th Hussars, Cavalry

RAMSBOTTOM

C R

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery

RAMUS

G

Private, Rifle Brigade

RANDELL

W

Colour Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

RAVEN

F

Private, Royal Warwickshire

RAYMENT

F

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

REDHEAD

T G

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

REEVE

J

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

REEVE

W G

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

REVELL

C

Bombardier, Royal Garrison Artillery

RICHES

R

Gunner, Royal Horse Artillery

RIX

H

Driver, Royal Field Artillery

ROPER

W J

Driver, Army Service Corps

ROWLAND

C F

Gunner, Royal Field Artillery

ROWLEY

A

Private, 6th Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

RUDD

J

Private, Coldstream guards

RUMP

B

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SAMPSON

H W

Gunner, Royal Field Artillery

SAVAGE

W

Private, Coldstream guards

SAY

J

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SAYER

A

Sergeant, Devon

SAYER

G

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SCOTT

C

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SCOTT

J

Lance Corporal, 21st Lancers, Cavalry

SCOTT

S C

Private, 8th Hussars, Cavalry

SCRUTTON

B I

Private 5683, 1st Battalion (Mounted Infantry), Royal Scots. Died of disease 19th April 1901 at Thaba N'chu. See also Edinburgh St Giles, Royal Scots memorial

SEAMAN

S J

Corporal, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SELLS

W

Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery Prince of Wales’s Own

SEWTER

W

Private, South African Constabulary

SEXTON

H

Private, Rifle Brigade

SHADLOCK

T F

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SHEARWOOD

G

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SHEPHERD

Richard Edmund

Lieutenant, Yorkshire Light Infantry, was killed in action near Brakenlaagte (20 miles north-west of Bethel), on 31st October 1901. He was the only son of Colonel C. H. Shepherd, D.S.O., lately commanding the 9th Regimental District, Norwich, was born in May, 1875, and educated at Wellington College, where he was for two years in the cricket eleven. He obtained his first commission in the 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment in April, 1894, in which he was gazetted Captain in May, 1897. He had served in the British South African Police from June, 1898, and was granted a commision as 2nd lieutenant, 30th August 1899, in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, being promoted lieutenant August, 1900. He served with the Mounted Infantry from the commencement of the war and was present at the actions of Belmont, Graspan, Magersfontein, relief of Kimberley, and the battles of Paardeberg, Driefontein and Diamond Hill. He was mentioned in despatches and granted the medal with seven clasps.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

SHINGFIELD

W R

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SHINN

A

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SHINN

W

Driver, Royal Horse Artillery

SIGGINS

A

Able Seaman 163800, H.M.S. Tartar, Royal Navy. Died of disease at Escourt 15th April 1900. Araded QSA with bar for Cape Colony.

SIMMONDS

W T

Private, 7th Dragoon Guards, Cavalry

SIMMONS

A E

Driver, Royal Engineers

SMITH

E W

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SMITH

G

Private, Northamptonshire

SMITH

H Mackie

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

SMITH

J

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SMITH

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SMITH

W P

Private, Scots Fusiliers

SNOWLING

Samuel

Private 5726, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Resident Fressingfield. Died in Fressingfield 29 June 1902 from typhoid fever. Born in Fressingfield, Suffolk, to James & Eliza Snowling (nee Welton) birth recorded July to September Quarter 1881. Also commemorated on the Ipswich Boer War Memorial.

Extract from Parliament - Hansard - HC Deb 21 October 1902 vol 113 cc351-2:

Private Snowling, 2nd Norfolks— Cause of Death.

HC Deb 21 October 1902 vol 113 cc351-2 351

MR. STEVENSON (Suffolk, Eye) To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the assurance conveyed to him by the Hoxne Rural District 352 Council on behalf of their medical officer of health, that the disease of which Private Snowling, of the 2nd Norfolks, died at Fressingfield on the 29th June last, was typhoid fever, and that he was suffering from it at the time of his discharge from hospital at Aldershot, and considering that two other persons contracted the disease from Private Snowling at Fressingfield, he will cause further inquiry to be made into the circumstances of his discharge, with the object of preventing, in the interests of the public health, a repetition of similar incidents.

(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The hon. Member has apparently been misinformed. Private Snowling was invalided home for secondary syphilis, and was treated in hospital as a convalescent for this disease until he left on sick furlough on 22nd May.

SPARKS

A W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SPOONER

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

SPURGEON

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

STACEY

C

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

STAFF

A

Corporal, Grenadier Guards

STANFORD

C J

Sapper, Royal Engineers

STEBBINGS

G H

Private, Royal West Surrey

STOPFORD

Horace Robert

Lieutenant-Colonel, Coldstream Guards, was killed at the battle of Modder River 28th November 1899. He was born in October, 1855, and educated at Eton (Mr. Waytes). He entered the 46th Foot in June, 1874, was transferred to the Coldstream Guards as lieutenant in August, 1875, was promoted captain October, 1885, major November, 1893, and lieutenant-colonel, to command the 2nd Battalion, February, 1899. From 1881-85 he was A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding the Forces in Ireland, and from 1887-89 was Commandant of the School of Instruction for Auxiliary Forces at Wellington Barracks. His battalion, on arrival in South Africa, joined the Kimberley Relief Force, under Lieutenant-General Lord Methuen, and took part in the battles of Belmont and Graspan. While leading his battalion at Modder River, he was killed by one of the first shells fired by the Boers in this action. He is mentioned in the report of Major-General Sir H. Colville, concerning the battle of Belmont — ” the advance of his battalion was distinctly well performed.”

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press

TAYLOR

A

Bombardier, Royal Horse Artillery

TAYLOR

C

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

THOMPSON

J S

Private, Kings Royal Rifles

THURSTON

A W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

TOMPSETT

W

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

TOOKE

E

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

TOOKE

R J

Private, Suffolk

TUBBY

A

Private, 8th Hussars, Cavalry

TUCK

R

Private, Lincolnshire Regiment. See also Lincoln Cathedral Boer War Memorial

TUFFIELD

A

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

TURNER

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

TYRELL

G

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

ULPH

H

Bearer, 1st Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

UNDERWOOD

A E

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

VINCE

R C

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Volunteer Company

VINCENT

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

VYALL

G H

Private, Kimberly Town Guard

WARDER

C

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

WARING

Walter

Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel, Militia Medical Staff Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, died of dysentery at the Princess Christian Hospital, at Pine Town Bridge, South Africa, 6th October 1900. He was appointed surgeon-captain in June 1902, and surgeon-lieutenant-colonel the following August. He volunteered for active service, and proceeded to South Africa in February 1900, and served during the war up to the time of his death. Also commemorated on RAMC Memorial, Gun Hill, Aldershot.

Source: The “Last Post”: Roll of Officers Who Fell in South Africa 1899-1902 by Mildred G Dooner reprinted by Naval & Military Press.

WARREN

L

Private, South African Constabulary

WASSELL

J

Private, 15th Hussars, Cavalry

WATERS

E

Private, 19th Hussars, Cavalry

WATLING

J

Sergeant, Army Service Corps

WATSON

A

Private, Leicester

WATSON

E M

Lance Corporal, Grenadier guards

WATSON

J Q

Private, South African Constabulary

WATSON

S W

Sergeant, Royal Horse Artillery

WATTS

F

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

WEBSTER

J

Private, Rifle Brigade

WESTGATE

W

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

WHITE

F

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

WICKS

T C

Private, Rifle Brigade

WILDE

T

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

WILLIAMSON

M

Private, 3rd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

WILSON

D E

Captain, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Not listed in The Last Post.

WOODS

H

Private, Coldstream Guards

WRIGHT

E

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

WRIGHT

J

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

WRIGHT

W C

Private, 4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

YOUNG

H W

Private, Imperial Yeomanry

YOUNG

R

Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment

YOUNG

R

Private, 2nd Battalion, Norfolk Regiment