Boer War 1899-1901
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives6388
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Elgin County Vertical File Collection
- Description Level
- File
- Accession Number
- 99-7
- Storage Location
- Box 50, File 9
- 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 9
- 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
- - also handwritten notes
- "Members of the Elgin Regiment who served in South Africa 1899-1902" (compiled by Lt. B.D. Sim):
- - Pte. A. H. Anderson
- - Gnr. G. A. Barrett
- - Dvr. H. Couse
- - Pte. C. P. Ermatinger
- - Pte. W. J. Green
- - Pte. F. G. Stanbury
- - Pte. H. N. Westaway
- - Pte. P. H. Stacey
- - Pte. J. Sutherland
- - Pte. H. B. Travers
- - Pte. J. E. Farley
- - Tpr. H. R. McKenzie
- - Tpr. W. Stokes
- - Tpr. F. Little
- - Tpr. A. E. Berry
- - Tpr. E. Stacey
- - Tpr. A. Montieth
- - Tpr. R. Palmerston
- - Pte. J. Monteith (this list has been scanned and is visible in this database record as the first pdf).
- Obituaries:
- - Dr. R. McKenzie, died January 20, 1909.
- - Sergt. George A. Barrett, died April 6, 1905 of complications following liver surgery (this typed, transcribed obituary from a St. Thomas paper has been scanned and is visible in this database record as the second pdf)..
- - Pte. Henry Newman Westaway, died January 24, 1939.
- Biography of Lieutenant-Colonel William James Green, died October 25th, 1958 (this biography has been scanned and is visible in this database record as the third pdf). Added to this folder by the Archivist in August 2020 are print-outs and scanned images of the following death announcements for William James Green:
- -Obituary, St. Thomas Times-Journal, October 27, 1958, pg. 1.
- -Death notice, St. Thomas Times-Journal, October 27, 1958, pg. 7.
- -Funeral notice, St. Thomas Times-Journal, October 29, 1958, pg. 15.