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From: "Peter Wray" <>
Subject: Re: [BOER-WAR] Coldstream guardsman at Chelsea Barracks for the 1901 census
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:30:12 -0000
References: <003d01c62f63$89dd7e60$2102a8c0@Belkin> <005201c62fd3$959654a0$22829aca@5336>


Robert,

While looking for something else, I just came on this

TROOP MOVEMENTS 1902

This is a transcription of a column in South Africa Magazine, April 19,
1902, titled Domestic Announcements:

Reinforcements for the battalions of the Coldstream Guards to the number of
225 officers and men left London for Southampton on Tuesday morning to
embark on the Dilwara for South Africa. For the same steamship a contingent
of the Scots Guards left Windsor under the command of Captain Gosling, and
the Dilwara sailed in the afternoon, having also on board 80 of the 2nd
Yorkshire Regiment, 245 1st Gordon Highlanders, 146 2nd Devons, and 123 2nd
Lincolns.

from this website http://www.genealogyworld.net/boer/movements.html

Perhaps of interest to you.

Can anyone tell me of any knowledge they may have of the publication South
Africa magazine ?

Regards

Peter



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wilson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [BOER-WAR] Coldstream guardsman at Chelsea Barracks for the
1901 census


Hi Robert:

The 1st & 2nd Coldstream Guards served in South Africa for most of
the war; ie “Nov. ‘99-end of war” according to the list in the Times
History Vol VII. The 1st was in more battles, but both were in the
“Great de Wet hunt”.

Your great-uncle was not in the battalions to South Africa at the
beginning of the war though, as you said he was in Chelsea Barracks
for the 1901 Census. I don’t know if they would have sent him out as
reinforcements to the Coldstream battalions already in South Africa?

Yours, John Wilson


> Is it likely my distant great uncle in the Chelsea barracks aged 19 and
> with the Coldstream Guards at the time of the 1901 census, have been
> likely to have been shipped out to South Africa before the conclusion of
> the Boer War?


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