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Roll of Honour Project - Boer War

We record with pride and gratitude the names of members of Our Communities who served their King and Country

Please feel free to submit for inclusion any Alberta Veteran, they need not be of an ancestor but must include the community they lived in at the time they entered into the service.

Boer War Veterans
1899 - 1902

ALMON, John E. - Brightbank
ARCHER, Walter - Coal City
BAINES, Harry Hewett - High River
BOYERS, James - Onoway
CALLAN, Frederick - Three Creeks
CARD, Harry - Cherhill
CASWELL, Job - Bow Island
80th Foot Staffordshire Volunteers - England
Professional Soldier until emigrating to Alberta
CORBY, Frank - Calgary
He went on to make a career of the NWRMP --then Saskatchewan Provincial Police and when that folded he was back in the RCMP--29.5 yrs. His brother is listed also on your pages for WWI KIA at Battle of Courcelette 1916
COURTNEY, William - Three Creeks
FLEETWOOD, Alfred William - Champion
British Army - Seige of Ladysmith
GOSSET, R. - Stony Plain
GUNN, Richard - Mayerthorpe
HARROP, James - Rochfort Bridge
HATELY, Samuel William - Barrhead
Discharge certificate from the South African Irregular Forces, 2nd Brabrant Horse that states he enrolled December 7, 1900 and was discharged December 3, 1901.
Died in May 1977
HEXTER, A.C. - Edson
KILSHAW, Bill - Barrhead
LAFFERTY, Francis Delamere - Calgary
LAIGHT, George - Wabamun
McKINLAY, M. - Stony Plain
ORR, William Francis - Stavely/High River Area
2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles
PARTRIDGE, Tom - Smithfield
POWELL, George - Stony Plain
*SCHELL, Joseph - Spruce Grove
Corporal in the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles in South Africa
SLAUGHTER, Jeff - Barrhead
STANDEVEN, George - Glenevis
WARD, James R. - Cherhill
WATSON, James Hannan - Mayerthorpe


Annette Bame Peebles, Alberta Provincial Coordinator

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