Islingtonian who died in the South African War, 1899-1903
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Charles Haythorpe
Commemorated ati
South African War
We are told by the people at The Register of the Anglo-Boer War that this war...
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Serjeant Barbara Mary Austin
Barbara Mary Austin was born on 2 August 1920 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, the youngest of the four children of Edward Neville Lefroy Austin (1873-1924) and Nora Frances Aust...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Woolf Joel
Born Spitalfields. South African mining magnate and businessman. The web provides the following anecdote: Early in 1898, just before leaving for South Africa, Woolf gave a dinner party at the Sav...
1 memorial
Major Matthew Meiklejohn, VC
Gained his VC, and lost his right arm, as a captain in the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders in South Africa at the battle of Elandslaagte, during the Boer War. He died following a fall from his h...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Charles Campbell Wood
Hero. R.A.F (South African Artillery). On 27 December 1919 he dived into the Thames from the upstream footway of Hammersmith Bridge and saved a drowning woman. He contracted tetanus as a consequenc...
1 memorial
Sharpeville Massacre
This took place near the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng). After a day of demonstrations against pass laws (these were an internal pa...
1 memorial
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