Roll of Honour - Regiments - Gordon Highlanders - Boer War Memorial in Intombi Cemetery, South Africa

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Gordon Highlanders - Boer War Memorial in Intombi Cemetery, South Africa

The memorial to the Gordon Highlanders stands in Intombi Cemetery and lists those men from the Regiment who died of disease while stationed there during the Boer War 1899-1902. During the siege of Ladysmith food became very scarce and many of the 30,000 inhabitants died from enteric fever. In the final month of the siege, 28 British soldiers a day were being buried at the Intombi Hospital. Many other victims of the siege are buried on Cemetery Hill. To read more about the details of this particular situation please see The South African Military History Society - Military History Journal - Vol 5 No 6 - Intombi Military Hospital and Cemetery by S.A. Watt - See also Edinburgh Gordon Highlanders Boer War Memorial

From an old postcard

	DIED OF DISEASE AT INTOMBI
	GORDON HIGHLANDERS
BETWEEN 8th JAN^Y 1900	EGYPT INDIA	AND 16^TH MAR. 1900
	PLACED BY THE REGIMENT

BRIND	P	Lance Sergeant 5631, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric 4 March 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 547. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
BRYANT	J	Private 3285, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of disease 8 January 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 136. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
DOWNIE	G	Drummer 5039, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric on 2 March 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 528. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
FAULDS	T	Private 6285, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric on 12 March 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 587. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
HOWES	J	Private 4293, 1^st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment attached 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of disease between 8 January and 16 March 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, South Africa. Grave 488. See also Bedford Boer War Detail, Bedford Boer War and Bedford St Paul's Boer War Memorial
MATHESON	N	[Listed as MATHIESON in some records] Lance Corporal 6411, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric 16 March 1900 . Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 603. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
MATHIESON	R	Private 6457, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of disease 16 February 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 431. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
McKAY	J	Lance Corporal 5473, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric 28 February 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 508? See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
McRAE	W	Private 5803, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric 24 February 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 491. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
PORTEOUS	T	Private 6176, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Wounded 6 January 1900 at Ladysmith, died of those wounds 10 January 1900 at Intombi. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 150. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
ROSS	J	Private 6013, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric 9 March 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 569. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
SUTER	H	Private 6394, 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of Enteric 20 February 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 466. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
TAGGART	J	Colour Sergeant 2851 [2521 on Ediburgh memorial], 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of disease 9 January 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, Grave 141. See also Edinburgh Castle Tablet, Gordon Highlanders, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
TWELVETREE	H	Private 5929, 1^st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment attached 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Died of disease between 8th January and 16th March 1900. Buried in Intombi Cemetery, South Africa. Grave 488. See also Bedford Boer War Detail, Bedford Boer War and Bedford St Paul's Boer War Memorial

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