28390 Corporal A Grant, 91st Company, 23rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (3rd Sharpshooters). He volunteered for service in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. He was killed in action when the guns he was escorting were attacked by a Boer force 300 strong at Tafelkop, East of Frankfort, Orange River Colony. He was Memtioned in Dispatches (London Gazette 25 Apr 1902, page: 2775. Source: General Kitchener. 8 March 1902. Re: General mentions). He is also commemorated on the 18th, 21st and 23rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry Boer War memorial in St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, London, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/145160/).
28390 Corporal A Grant, 91st Company, 23rd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry (3rd Sharpshooters). He volunteered for service in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. He was killed in action when the guns he was escorting were attacked by a Boer force 300 strong at Tafelkop, East of Frankfort, Orange River Colony. He was Memtioned in Dispatches (London Gazette 25 Apr 1902, page: 2775. Source: General Kitchener. 8 March 1902. Re: General mentions). He is also commemorated on the 18th, 21st and 23rd Battalion Imperial Yeomanry Boer War memorial in St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Trafalgar Square, London, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/145160/).
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