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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Romilly on Wednesday 25 January 12 20:37 GMT (UK)
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Hoping that someone will be able to help with this...
My Great Uncle, William Dyer, born Erith, Kent 1882...alledgedly served in the Boer War. (See attached pic).
I've found him on the 1891 Census, in Tottenham with parents William and Ellen Dyer.
On the 1901 Census he's in Barracks at Litchfield with his Regiment. He alledgedly served in the Boer War.
Is this uniform right for the Boer War? And is there a Site where I can check if he definately served in it?
Cheers, Romilly.
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looking at the census for 1901,,the officers are from the Staffordshire regiment,,,so was he in this regiment,,,if he was in the boer war,,then he should have been in South Africa in 1901,,as the war was in progress,,,not to say he didnt ship out later?
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Maybe this site could help you
http://angloboerwar.com/
Find my past also has some records but you would have to pay to view them.
kaysii
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Find my past has Boer war records
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/boer-war-register-search-start.action?product=BW&ukwid=654956&sourceid=1&FindMyPast+Main_CPC&utm_medium=Military+Records&utm_campaign=Boer+War
should take you to a search page
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Photo could be later he looks to have a ribbon on tunic?
Ady
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Hi All,
Many Thanks for the replies. Gordon, I don't have access to FindMyPast, only Ancestry.
The problem is that I know very little about this chap... He was my G/Grandmother Frances Dyer's younger brother. I was recently sent this photo by a (distant) cousin from Australia, who tells me that William Dyer served in the Boer War and then went to Argentina. (He's also supposed to have spent time in the Navy, - but I have no further details on this).
I was trying to verify the Boer War Service as a first step...(!)
Cheers, Romilly.
NB...what does that number to his right signify?
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I suspect the number on the right is the studio's reference number for the sitting (or possibly the individual negative) placing it in-shot would ensure its accuracy and be less likely to be lost over time than a stamp or handwriting on the reverse.
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Find my past has Boer war records
http://www.findmypast.co.uk/boer-war-register-search-start.action?product=BW&ukwid=654956&sourceid=1&FindMyPast+Main_CPC&utm_medium=Military+Records&utm_campaign=Boer+War
should take you to a search page
Just checked out FindMyPast and there is one result for
William Dyer, Boer War(!)
However, having just taken out subs to Ancestry...I will have to wait quite a while before taking out anything else... ::)
Romilly.
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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
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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).
Romilly.
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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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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.
Cheers, Romilly.
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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.
Jebber
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Here is the link to his entry in the Medal Roll on Ancestry.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0jzu/
Jebber
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Gosh...Many Thanks that that Jebber!!
Best Wishes, Romilly. :) :)
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The 1901 Census entry is for the Militia battalions of one of the Staffordshire regiments. So something is not right.
Ken
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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.
Romilly.
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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.
Jebber
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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.
Jebber
Thanks for enlarging on that Jebber, - I had thought that possibly I had the wrong chap there, - but it seems not!
Cheers, Romilly.