5225 Private A Mercer, 4th Battalion the Royal Irish Rifles, attached to the 5th Battalion the Royal Irish Rifles. He volunteered for active service in the Second Anglo Boer War and deployed with the 5th Battalion to South Africa in Apr 1901. He died of disease at No 3 General Hospital, Kroonstad, Orange River Colony. He is also commemorated on a 5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles memorial tablet in Downpatrick Cathedral, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland (see: http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Place-Detail?siteId=557) and on the Royal Irish Rifles Boer War memorial at the City Hall, Donegall Square East, Belfast, County Antrim (see: http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=508).
5225 Private A Mercer, 4th Battalion the Royal Irish Rifles, attached to the 5th Battalion the Royal Irish Rifles. He volunteered for active service in the Second Anglo Boer War and deployed with the 5th Battalion to South Africa in Apr 1901. He died of disease at No 3 General Hospital, Kroonstad, Orange River Colony. He is also commemorated on a 5th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles memorial tablet in Downpatrick Cathedral, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland (see: http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Place-Detail?siteId=557) and on the Royal Irish Rifles Boer War memorial at the City Hall, Donegall Square East, Belfast, County Antrim (see: http://www.irishwarmemorials.ie/Memorials-Detail?memoId=508).
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