Trace your Boer War ancestors : soldiers of a forgotten war / Jane Marchese Robinson.
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TextPublisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Family History, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: vii, 183 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473822429; 1473822424Subject(s): Soldiers -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Genealogy | British -- 19th century -- GenealogyLOC classification: CS430 | .R63 2016Summary: BOER WARS. The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons, mainly volunteers, travelled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling conditions on the veld and atop 'kopjes'. Of the over 20,000 who died more than half suffered enteric, an illness consequent on insanitary water. This book will act as an informative research guide for those seeking to discover and uncover the stories of the men who fought and the families they left behind. It will look in particular at the kind of support the men received if they were war injured and that offered to the families of the bereaved. Some pensions were available to regular soldiers and the Patriotic Fund, a charitable organisation , had been resurrected at the beginning of the conflict. However for those who did not fit these categories the Poor Law was the only support available at the time.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-172) and index.
BOER WARS. The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons, mainly volunteers, travelled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling conditions on the veld and atop 'kopjes'. Of the over 20,000 who died more than half suffered enteric, an illness consequent on insanitary water. This book will act as an informative research guide for those seeking to discover and uncover the stories of the men who fought and the families they left behind. It will look in particular at the kind of support the men received if they were war injured and that offered to the families of the bereaved. Some pensions were available to regular soldiers and the Patriotic Fund, a charitable organisation , had been resurrected at the beginning of the conflict. However for those who did not fit these categories the Poor Law was the only support available at the time.
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