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Thursday, 23 February 2017

Ward, William - Army Form B2077 Discharge Parchment

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This is a parchment certificate issued to each soldier on discharge from the Army or on transfer to the Reserves. The parchment was a form o...
Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Boer POW Handicraft: medal box

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Handicrafts made by Boer prisoners of war are well known and well collected. Less well known examples are boxes made for the medals of Briti...
Saturday, 31 December 2016

Research Puzzle: TF Adlard South African Light Horse, was he a casualty?

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The Natal Field Force Casualty Roll (NFF) shows "416 Sgt Adlard TF Died wounds Natal 31-01-1900". Steve Watt's In Memoriam (Un...
Saturday, 19 November 2016

1st Life Guards and the Relief of Ladysmith

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Two officers and six men of the 1 st Life Guards served in the campaign in Natal to relieve Ladysmith, all earned the Relief of Ladysmith ...
Monday, 10 October 2016

Sgt-Major Mauchle's Missing Diary

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I have in my collection an Anglo-Boere Oorlog medal to a Sergant-Major Freidrich Traugott Mauchle of the Transvaal Staatsatillerie. Mauchle ...
Saturday, 8 October 2016

The unfortunate death of Private 4991 John Hood, 2nd Dragoons

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The casualty rolls show Pte 4981 (sic) J Hood 2nd Dragoons died of exposure at Dorsfontein (sic) April 25th, 1902. Exposure is not an uncomm...
Monday, 1 August 2016

Single Source? - Check Again!

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The one thing that I have learnt in over 30 years of research and particularly the ten or so that I have been compiling The Register  is tha...