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Offline Romilly

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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 26 January 12 19:06 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: mmm45 on Thursday 26 January 12 17:44 GMT (UK)
If someone can confirm its your man through next of kin etc you can hopefully get his Boer War medal entitlement of Ancestry...Theres a couple of possibles though.
Ady

Yes, I've found 2 possibles on there...

I can't see anything on them about next of kin though. (The next of kin for the chap I'm looking for would be either his father, also William Dyer, - or his mother, Ellen Dyer).

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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 26 January 12 19:46 GMT (UK) »
That looks like the uniform of the 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment to me. I googled the name of the regiment in google images/pics
If so then Dwyer was in the Boer War and he was a private. I think he received the standard campaign medal.
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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 27 January 12 09:37 GMT (UK) »

Many thyanks for looking dillonking.

I love the pic! Yes, that does look like the uniform Wm Dyer is wearing, and as he would have been living in Tottenham when he joined up...I would imagine that the Middlesex Regiment would have been more likely than a Scottish one.

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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 27 January 12 11:18 GMT (UK) »
 Hi Romilly,

His records are on FindMyPast, he was in the East Yorkshire Regt, his number was 6529, and yes he was in the Boer war. He had the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps for the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.

He gave his father as next of kin.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 27 January 12 12:25 GMT (UK) »
Here is the link to his entry in the Medal Roll on Ancestry.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0jzu/


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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 27 January 12 14:13 GMT (UK) »

Gosh...Many Thanks that that Jebber!!

Best Wishes, Romilly. :) :)
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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #15 on: Friday 27 January 12 14:42 GMT (UK) »
The 1901 Census entry is for the Militia battalions of one of the Staffordshire regiments. So something is not right.

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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #16 on: Friday 27 January 12 15:41 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: km1971 on Friday 27 January 12 14:42 GMT (UK)
The 1901 Census entry is for the Militia battalions of one of the Staffordshire regiments. So something is not right.
Ken

Hi Ken,

It could well be the case that the 1901 Census entry that I found relates to another William Dyer. If my William Dyer served in the Boer War, (and the Medal List shows that he did)...then he would have been in South Africa then, and not in the UK.

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Re: Is there a Site for Boer War Look-ups?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 27 January 12 17:46 GMT (UK) »
Ken,

There is no doubt that the 1901 census entry is the correct William DYER, there are several other people in the barracks who served in the East Yorkshire Regt. Frederick ORCHARD from Bath and Herbert MENDHAM from Norfolk, to mention just two of them, their record are also on FindMyPast. Further investigation would probably prove that some or the other soldiers were from various other Regiments.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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