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That's interesting thank you. I'm glad you mentioned that he forfeited his good conduct pay I was wondering what PGC pay was. I've just noticed right at the front he signed on for 7 years with the colours and 5 with the reserve so I guess the Boer War extended his service with the colours and he got transferred to the Reserve as soon as possible for what was left of those 5 years.

I can't find an obvious reason for his return home in 1900, nothing like his parents or one of his children dying (although I don't actually know when either of his parents did die), although that doesn't exclude sickness, but he definitely seems to have met with Florence, because their daughter Evelyn was born in York on 17 May 1901.

I think that answers my main questions at the moment, I feel I have a rough understanding of what he was doing during his service now. Thank you for your help. I dare say I'll be back on this board soon though, I've got Edward's WW1 record to get through although you did explain some of that already, then it looks like at least 2 of his sons were in the RAF in the 1930s and into WW2, so I'll need to see what I can work out for them. Also I do have some collateral family who were in the army and I remembered after making my last post that my great grandfather James Henry Widdop was also briefly in the Army, between leaving his wife and going back to her, I never think of him as having been a soldier though.

Hi, I hope I gave this the right name, I wasn't sure what to use. My great grandfather Edward Nicklin served in this unit during the above period but all I can tell from his service record is that he was in the Boer War, and I was wondering how to find information on what he might have been doing the rest of the time. (I've found a little bit of information about what the 17th Lancers did during the Boer War on www.angloboerwar.com but if anybody knows where to find any more I won't say no)

The dates in his record are:
Transferred to the 17th Lancers from the 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment 1 Sep 1894 (he was originally attested 10 October 1893) and he was transferred to the Army Reserve on demobilisation on 24 December 1902 (discharged on 9 October 1905)

His service is listed as
Home               10 Oct 1893 – 14 Feb 1900 (6 years 128 days)
South Africa   15 Feb 1900 – 10 Sep 1900 (146 days)
Home           11 Sep 1900 – 2 March 1901 (235 days)
South Africa   3 March 1901 - 26 Aug 1902 (1 year 177 days)
Home           17 Aug 1902 – 9 Oct 1905 (3 years 44 days)

I do know that he was in Fulford Barracks in York in 1897 because he marries at Fulford on 12 April 1897, also his son Harold Clifford Nicklin is born in 1900 in Cork, Ireland. His other children born whilst he's in the army are born at York or at Tutbury, where he is from, so I'm guessing his wife Florence was staying with either her family or his and not with him when they were born.

Also he has the following medals listed
Queens SA medal with clasp
Cape colony and O F State
Kings medal with clasp
S A 1901
S A 1902
As far as I can tell they just mean he served in South Africa for at least 18 months, was there in 1901 and 1902 and served in the Cape of Good Hope and Orange Free State but not in any specific actions.

Any help gratefully received, military history is an area I really don't know about.

True, I've got quite a few who lived past 40, including the John Battersby and Clement Parker in this list, lol. So there's no real reason it can't be Clement's father. Thank you again for your help.

That makes sense for quakers, thank you very much.

Yes, I can see it now, thank you everybody. Thomas Tib and Elizabeth Denbie both of Hambleton, I was trying to make the both part of the surname before.