5614 Drummer J Tracey, 2nd Battalion the East Yorkshire Regiment. The battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing on the Nile on 14 Mar 1900, and arrived at the Cape on 3 Apr 1900. Along with the 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd Scots Guards, and 1st Leinster Regiment, they formed the 16th Brigade under Major General Barrington Campbell. They joined the main advance from Bleomfontein to Johannesburg and Pretoria. They were in action at Winburg, Orange Free State just days before they fought in the action at Biddulphsberg on 29 May 1900, but their losses were not severe. The battalion was in no other big battle, but had much skirmishing and endless harassing work. Drummer Tracey served in the Mounted Infantry and died of enteric fever (typhoid) at 29 Stationary Hospital, Heilbron, Orange River Colony on 12 Apr 1902. He was buried on 13 Apr 1902. He is also commemorated on the East Yorkshire Regiment Boer War memorial in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Humberside, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/195042/).
5614 Drummer J Tracey, 2nd Battalion the East Yorkshire Regiment. The battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing on the Nile on 14 Mar 1900, and arrived at the Cape on 3 Apr 1900. Along with the 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd Scots Guards, and 1st Leinster Regiment, they formed the 16th Brigade under Major General Barrington Campbell. They joined the main advance from Bleomfontein to Johannesburg and Pretoria. They were in action at Winburg, Orange Free State just days before they fought in the action at Biddulphsberg on 29 May 1900, but their losses were not severe. The battalion was in no other big battle, but had much skirmishing and endless harassing work. Drummer Tracey served in the Mounted Infantry and died of enteric fever (typhoid) at 29 Stationary Hospital, Heilbron, Orange River Colony on 12 Apr 1902. He was buried on 13 Apr 1902. He is also commemorated on the East Yorkshire Regiment Boer War memorial in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Humberside, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/195042/).
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