30242 Acting Bombardier A Rolfe, 77th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. The Battery deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War. On arrival at the Cape they accompanied General Gatacre on the ill-fated expedition to Stormberg 10 Dec 1899. In 1900 four guns were with Colonel Harley (despatch of 8th July) operating in north-east of Orange River Colony. They then joined General Rundle, being engaged near Dewetsdorp and Thabanchu in the latter part of April 1900, at Biddulphsberg on 29 May 1900 and endless other actions in the north-east of the Orange River Colony. Acting Bombardier Rolfe died of disease at 41 Stationary Hospital, Ficksburg on 26 Mar 1901. He is also commemorated on the Royal Artillery Boer War memorial on the corner of Horse Guards Parade and the Mall, at the north-east corner of St James Park, London, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/112037).
30242 Acting Bombardier A Rolfe, 77th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. The Battery deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War. On arrival at the Cape they accompanied General Gatacre on the ill-fated expedition to Stormberg 10 Dec 1899. In 1900 four guns were with Colonel Harley (despatch of 8th July) operating in north-east of Orange River Colony. They then joined General Rundle, being engaged near Dewetsdorp and Thabanchu in the latter part of April 1900, at Biddulphsberg on 29 May 1900 and endless other actions in the north-east of the Orange River Colony. Acting Bombardier Rolfe died of disease at 41 Stationary Hospital, Ficksburg on 26 Mar 1901. He is also commemorated on the Royal Artillery Boer War memorial on the corner of Horse Guards Parade and the Mall, at the north-east corner of St James Park, London, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/112037).
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