John

Private 2459, 2^nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Severely wounded 27 December 1900, died of wounds 28 December 1900 at Britstown. Details appeared in Peterborough & Huntingdon Standard 1st March 1900 under non-commisisoned men. He is Listed as Lance Corporal G ASHPOLE in 'The Boer War Casualty Roll 1899-1902' by Alexander Palmer. Also appears on the Bedford Boer War Memorial and the Bedford St Paul's Regimental Boer War memorial.

Arthur

Corporal 3379, 5^th Dragoon Guards. Died of enteric 26th May 1900 at Ladysmith. Details appeared in Peterborough & Huntingdon Standard 1st March 1900 and "The South African Casualty Roll, The Natal Field Force 20th Oct 1899 - 26 Oct 1900" available from Naval & Military Press

George Eli

Rifleman 6081, 3^rd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Died of pneumonia 27th August 1900 at Standerton. Buried at Standaerton.

Reuben

Sapper 3099, 5th Company, Royal Engineers. Died of disease 30th March 1902 at Machadodorp. Buried at Machadodorp. Also commemorated on Royal Engineers Memorial Chatham, Kent

(Honourable) Charles William Hugh

Lieutenant, 17th Lancers. Killed in action at Diamond Hill, near Pretoria, 11th June 1900. Aged 21. Only son of Lord Chesham, commanding the Imperial Yeomanry. Born September 1878. Educated at Eton (Mr Ainger's). Entered the 17th Lancers from the Royal Military College in August 1898. He proceeded to South Africa in February 1900, and served with his Regiment in the Orange River Colony and Transvaal until killed at Diamond Hill.

Also commemorated on Coombe Hill, Wendover, Burton Latimer Boer War, and Peterborough Cathedral Memorial. Also on the memorial in Northampton Cathedral - "To the Glory of God and in memory of Brave Men, inhabitants of this County and neighbourhood, who gave their lives for their Sovereign and Country during the War in South Africa 1899-1902, the Western Window of this Cathedral was filled with stained glass, AD 1903........ 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers, 2nd Lieut. The Hon. C.W.H. Cavendish ........"

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

Albert Henry

5^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Edward

Army Medical Service

William

Private 3683, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Killed in action near Kleinfontein 24th October 1901. Buried at Zeerust. Also listed as Lance Corporal in Peterborough & Huntingdon Standard 1st Qtr 1900.

Arthur James

Private 6431, 2^nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Also commemorated on Bedford Boer War Memorial and the Bedford St Paul's Regimental Boer War memorial.

William

Rifleman, 5^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

Benjamin

Private 864, 2^nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. died of disease 28th July 1900 at Pretoria. Buried at Pretoria. Grave 217. Also commemorated on Bedford Boer War Memorial and the Bedford St Paul's Regimental Boer War memorial.

Henry

Private 43130, 34th Company, 4^th (Hunts. Volunteer) Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. Died of disease at sea aboard SS Assaye 23rd May 1902. Buried at sea. See also Ramsey St Mary Memorial

Lionel Howard

Lieutenant, 16^th Lancers. Died of enteric at Barberton 23rd September 1900. Aged 19. Born October 1880. Buried in Braberton Graveyard, Grave 127. Also commemorated in Peterborough Cathedral and St Peter's Church, Eaton Square.

Extract from "The Last Post - Roll of Officers who fell in South Africa 1899-1902" by Mildred G Dooner, published by Naval and Military Press

Gilliat. - Lieut. Lionel Howard Gilliat, 16th Lancers, died of enteric, at Barberton, Sept. 23rd, 1900. He was born Oct., 1880, educated at Eton (Mr. Impey’s), and entered the 16th Lancers from the 5th Batt. King’s Royal Rifle Corps Jan., 1900, being promoted lieut. the following July. He had served in the 5th Batt. King’s Royal Rifle Corps from Oct., 1897. A tablet to his memory has been erected by his brother officers in St. Peter’s Church, Eaton Square.

[Spelt GOODLIFFE and GOODLIFF elsewhere] Private 4972, 38th (Buckinghamshire) Company, 10th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. died of enteric 26th January 1901 at Kimberley. Aged 31. Church of England. Buried in West End Cemetery, Kimberley. Commemorated on a brass plaque in Huntingdon All Saints church. Also commemorated on Coombe Hill, Wendover, Buckinghamshire and Peterborough Cathedral Memorials. Listed in Peterborough & Huntingdon Standard 1st March 1900

Henry

Private 4774, 19^th Hussars (Queen Alexandras Own Royal). Died of disease 31st October 1901 at Middelburg. Buried at Middelburg.

Arthur George

Corporal 4438, 2^nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Died of enteric fever at Ladysmith, 18th February 1900. Son of George and Sarah (nee Fisher) Hensman, married 1864 in Godmanchester. He was born at Sutton, Cambridgeshire and in 1881 he was living with his family in St Neots. Buried Intombi Cemetery, Ladysmith, South Africa.

Thomas

Private 5120, 2^nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Died of disease 18th April 1901 at Wynberg, Cape Town. Buried in Wynberg, Cape Town, St John's Cemetry. Also listed on the Peterborough Cathedral Memorial.

Edward

5^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

Daniel William

Private, Damant's Horse. Wounded 20th December 1901, near Tafelkop, Frankfort District, and later died of those wounds

Arthur

Private 6746, 2^nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Died of disease 19th May 1901 at Harrismith. Buried in Harrismith Town Cemtery. Church of Englasnd grave. Also commemorated in Ramsey St Mary Chuch.

2^nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Commemorated on a brass plaque in Huntingdon All Saints church

Charles

Private 11989, Royal Army Medical Service. Died of disease 28th March 1900 at Bloemfontein. Buried in President Avenue Cemetry. Bloemfontein. Also commemorated on RAMC Memorial, Gun Hill, Aldershot.

Thomas James

[Listed elsewhere as J McCROW] Staff Sergeant 5024, 30th or 38th Company, Army Service Corps. Died of disease 30th January 1900 at Sterkstroom. Buried at Sterksroom. Peterborough & Huntingdon Standard listed him as resident Hemingford Grey.

Charles F

Lance Corporal 321, London City Imperial Volunteers. Died of disease 2nd June 1900 at Kroonstad. Buried in Noirth Road Cemtery, Kroonstad. Grave 712.

Samuel

Trooper 1218, 2^nd Life Guards. Died of enteric fever at Springfontein 30th May 1900. Buried at Springfontein.

James W

[Listed as NUNNS on memorial] Gunner 20572, 7^th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Died of enteric 4th April 1900 at Sundays River. Buried in Elandslaagte Naval Cemetery.

John

Rifleman 184, 1^st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Killed in action 27th February 1900 at Tugela Heights, Harts Hill. Buried at Tugela Heights, Harts Hill.

Arthur

Trooper 88, Kimberley Mounted Corps (Kimberly Light Horse). Killed in action 3rd August 1900 at Matjavis Station.

James John

Private 6550, 2^nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died of disease 23rd June 1900 at Noupoort. Buried at Noupoort. Listed in Peterborough & Huntingdon Standard 1st Qtr 1900. Also listed on plaque in Bury Church, Huntingdonshire.

George

Rifleman, 3^rd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Isaac

[Listed as J SLACK in some documents] Rifleman 6870, 2^nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Died of enteric 16th April 1900 at Estcourt, Convent. Buried at Estcourt.

Imperial Yeomanry. Commemorated on a brass plaque in Huntingdon All Saints church

George

Rifleman 931, 5^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Died of enteric 3rd February 1901 at Standerton. Burdied at Standerton.

Arthur James

Private 5360, 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Killed in action 22nd April 1900 at Leeuwkop. Buried at Leeuwkop.

Arthur Strachan

Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry D.S.O. Killed in action at Tabaksberg 29th January 1901. Aged 24. Son of Rev. W.H. Bromley Way, late rector of Warboys, Hunts. Born 5th March 1876. He was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and joined the 2nd. Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, at Poona, in January 1896. He served in South Africa from January 1900 to 29th January 1901 with the Mounted Infantry, and was killed in action on 29th January 1901. He was created a companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette, 27th September 1901): "Arthur Strachan Way, Lieut., Durham Light Infantry (deceased). In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa." The Insignia, Warrant and Statutes were sent to his father. His brother, Lieutenant-Colonel Bromley Way, Sherwood Foresters, writes of Lieutenant Way: "He went to South Africa with the Durham Light Infantry Company of the Burmah Mounted Infantry in January 1990; was mentioned for gallantry at Sanna's Post, and on subsequent occasions, and was killed in action 29th January 1901." Awarded DSO 1901 and QSA and 5 bars.

William

Corporal 5981, 1^st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in action 31st October 1901 at Bakenlaagte. Buried in Germinston, Primrose. His story can be found on another page.

Simon

2^nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards

Alfred

[Listed as 3rd Battalion in some documents] Rifleman 7437, 5^th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Died from wounds received 24th January 1900 at Spion Kop in Netley Hospital 16th November 1900. Buried in United Kingdom.