Pete - Here is his entry in 'The Last Post', a roll of officers who died in the Boer War.
"Lieutenant Hugh Stewart McCorquodale, Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry, was killed in action at Spion Kop, 24 January 1900. He was the youngest son of the late George McCorquodale, Esq. of Newton-le-Willows and Gadlys, Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, by his second wife Emily, daughter of the Rev. T. Sanderson, vicar of Doddington, Lancashire. Lieutenant McCorquodale was born August 1875, and educated at Harrow, where he was in the school football team. From Harrow he sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree in June 1897. He was fond of all sports, shooting, hurling, fishing, and when at Cambridge, was whip to the drag hounds. He had intended joining his brothers in business, but when war broke out went to South Africa and joined Thorneycroft's Mounted Infantry on 23 January 1900. In the battle the next day he and his men were exposed to a terrific flank fire. Mr. Winston Churchill, MP, states that the night beforeSpion Kop, when crossing the pontoon bridge over the Tugela he heard his name called, and recognised the face of a boy he had known at Harrow: this was Llieutenant McCorquodale, who said he had just arrived and hoped "to get a job." Next day Mr. Churchill heard that someone who could not be identified had been found leaning forward on his rifle dead. A pair of field glasses, broken by a bullet, bore the name "McCorquodale." Joined in the evening, killed at dawn, "gallant fellow, he had soon got his job: the great sacrifice had been required of the Queen's latest recruit." Lieutenant McCorquodale is buried on the field of battle where he fell."
David
