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Name: SPENCER, W
Rank: Private
Soldier number: 7855
Unit: 1 Battalion Coldstream Guards
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Literary references: Photos taken by John Scott 7/4


Memorial:
Holy Trinity. North & south gallery. Panels. Household Cavalry & Guards Windsor Berkshire England


Casualty:
Casualty details: Enteric on 24 May 1900 at Bloemfontein (2) (Official casualty roll location: Bloemfontein)
Unit: 1 Battalion Coldstream Guards
Source: South African Field Force. JB Hayward & Sons
Notes: [The National Archives WO100. The QSA and KSA campaign medal rolls.]
Gazetteer:
[2926: 2907-2614] the capital of the Orange Free State (Bloemfontein district; Free State). The city and district furnished commandos for the Boer forces (Cmdt P.J. Fourie; Cmdt W.J. Kolbe; Cmdt J.P. Ackerman; Cmdt J.J. Boshoff). As British forces advanced from the west, President M.T. Steyn left by train on the evening of 12 March 1900 and the city was abandoned for Field Marshal Lord Roberts to make a ceremonial entry on the following day. In the early hours of that morning, a party of volunteers commanded by Maj A.G. Hunter-Weston, RE, cut the railway line north of the city; on their return, the party clashed with a Boer piquet and for saving one of the party who became unhorsed, Sgt H. Engleheart, 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) Hussars, was awarded the Victoria Cross. It became the focus for British reinforcements and a military reorganization and on 3 May Roberts left the city to begin his advance on Pretoria*. A prisoner of war camp for burghers and a white concentration refugee camp were established here. From May 1901 the defence of the city and surrounding area was entrusted to some 3,000 South African Constabulary. HMG II pp.230-240 (map no.25), III pp.27ff, IV pp.668 and 701; Times III pp.589ff, IV pp.1-22 and 102, V p.260; Breytenbach V pp.112ff; Wilson II pp.542-545, IV p.574; De Wet pp.72-77; Yardley pp.51-52; Goldmann pp.158-160 (second and third maps facing p.160); Pakenham pp.391ff and 536-538

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Name: NOLAN, M
Rank: Private
Soldier number: 2576
Unit: 1 Battalion The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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Casualty:
Casualty details: Missing - Released on 17 Feb 1900 at Tugela (Official casualty roll location: Tugela)
Unit: 1 Battalion The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Source: Natal Field Force. JB Hayward & Sons

Name: NOLAN, M
Rank: Unknown
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Unit: Johannesburg Mounted Rifles
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Literary references: The National Archives WO127. Nominal rolls colonial units

Could someone with F.M.P sub please look at - Military - Anglo-boer war
1899-1902 for Martin Nolan army no 2576 Royal Welsh Fusiliers and William Spencer army no 7855 Coldstream Guards. Could you tell me if the info is worth me getting credit to view them. Thanks