The Anglo-Boer Wars

Lots of soldiers who served in the Anglo-Boer War also went on to serve in World War I. There is plenty of research material on the inter...

** Updated 1st December, 2023 - Trollip. There are three sources on-line for British Empire casualties; Ancestry , Fold3 and The Register  w...

In The Register database one can find many variations in the spelling for a surname, this doesn't normally cause a problem unless it im...

One source of names for those who served are the nominal rolls in class WO127 ( The National Archives ) for the South African raised colonia...

At the National Archives, London there is a useful class of papers that is not easy to use because it is indexed only by name, sometimes a l...

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In July 1992 the medal auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb sold a Queen's South Africa and King's South Africa pair to Quartermaster Sergea...