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South Africa / Re: * Trooper C Aldis Matabeleland Relief Force 1896 ? *
« on: Thursday 25 July 24 16:23 BST (UK)  »


Hi

Thanks for all your help , anyone able to suggest a Rhodesian Researcher ?

I will have a go , but the British Records are the ones I am most familiar with
I can state the the page ' where ' his name on the Roll , is missing from the National Archives at Kew
( I have looked several time , National Archives can't seem to find it !
Don't know if its at the Bodlein Library at Oxford
There is - no - service number on the Medal
I don't even know the man's full first name !



I show the Medal

I have bought the Plumer book , thanks !  ;)

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South Africa / Re: South Africa search
« on: Thursday 18 July 24 15:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction please ?

I am desperately trying to locate a " C. Aldis " who fought in Matabeleland in 1896
with the Matabele Relief Expedition under Plumer ( he is on the Medal Roll as a Trooper )

I don't know if he was from South Africa or Rhodesia - or a British emigrant ?

any help would be gratefully appreciated ( I have hit a brick wall )

I would credit you gratefully as a Source in a potential Medal Article on Him
but I need to find out who he was first ! before I can start writing

kind regards
David
( I am very good usually , locating people but this one is defeating me )

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South Africa / * Trooper C Aldis Matabeleland Relief Force 1896 ? *
« on: Tuesday 16 July 24 17:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I wonder if anyone can help point me to trying to work out who
" C Aldis " was who enlisted in 1896 with Plumer's Matabeleland Relief Force in 1896
( source - British South Africa  Company Medal for  Rhodesia 1896 )

apart from his name on the Medal Roll ( I have his Medal ) I can find nothing on him
although I am using Ancestry - I assume a South Africa / Africa based search would bring him up ?

hopefully someone with ability to search South Africa or Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ) can point me
to a source or a line of research
I am very happy to credit them as a source and
I am a bona fide Published Medal Article Author
kind regards

David

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