Boer War 1899-1901
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives6387
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-7
- Storage Location
- Box 50, File 8
- R5 S5 Sh2 B2
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-7
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 107
- Storage Location
- Box 50, File 8
- R5 S5 Sh2 B2
- Scope and Content
- George E. Thorman Papers
- - documents concerning the service of St. Thomas men in the Boer War, 1899- 1901
- - these are mostly typed copies of letters home published in St. Thomas and area newspapers, newspaper accounts of the war, and newspaper accounts of the men going to the war and coming home
- - there are also obituaries for some of these men in later years
- List of St. Thomas Soldiers bound for South Africa, Oct. 28, 1899:
- - Lieut. John Egerton Farley
- - Lieut. H. N. Westaway
- - Capt. William James Green
- - Lieut. Archibald H. Anderson
- - Sergt. Fredrick George Stanbury
- - Corp. John Sutherland
- Obituaries:
- - John Egerton Farley, died February 4, 1900, buried in South Africa. There are two obituaries that have been scanned and added to this database record: one from a St. Thomas paper, February 1900, and the other from the St. Thomas Daily-Times, February 6, 1900.
- - Harry B. Travers, died May 1909 of a heart aneurysm.
Documents
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