The Anglo-Boer Wars

Today's research began with the 5th (militia) battalion Royal Irish Rifles, moved on to expanding the gazetteer and finally uncovering t...

For as long as medals have been bought and sold groups of medals have been split up, you just have to browse a few dealer's list to see ...

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...