3692 Private A Cheeseman, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers). The Regiment deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, arriving in the beginning of Dec 1899, and joined General French in the Colesberg district. Along with the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) they formed the 1st Cavalry Brigade. They moved from Colesberg to the Modder River in with General French in the beginning of Feb 1900 in preparation for the move on Kimberley. After the relief of Kimberley they were part of the advance on Bloemfontein and took part in the action of Karee Siding. They were part of the advance to and capture of Pretoria and he was present at the engagements round Belfast and Machadodorp, and the occupation of Barberton. In the second phase of the war, they were with the 2nd Dragoons under Colonel Allenby and trekked to the east of the Transvaal via Bethel, Amsterdam, and Piet Retief, when General French was carrying out his big sweeping movement in Feb-Apr 1901. During May-July 1901 they were in the valley of the Vaal River, about the head waters of the Wilge River, and afterwards in the Western Transvaal. Private Cheeseman was killed in action at Nooitgedacht, 3 miles NW of Hekpoort, west of Pretoria. He was buried near where he fell with those killed in the same area on 13 Dec 1900. His remains were later reinterred at Krugersdorp. He is also commemorated on the 6th Dragoon Guards Boer War memorial at Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea Embankment, South East Corner opposite Chelsea Bridge, Chelsea, London (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/111552).
3692 Private A Cheeseman, 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers). The Regiment deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, arriving in the beginning of Dec 1899, and joined General French in the Colesberg district. Along with the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) they formed the 1st Cavalry Brigade. They moved from Colesberg to the Modder River in with General French in the beginning of Feb 1900 in preparation for the move on Kimberley. After the relief of Kimberley they were part of the advance on Bloemfontein and took part in the action of Karee Siding. They were part of the advance to and capture of Pretoria and he was present at the engagements round Belfast and Machadodorp, and the occupation of Barberton. In the second phase of the war, they were with the 2nd Dragoons under Colonel Allenby and trekked to the east of the Transvaal via Bethel, Amsterdam, and Piet Retief, when General French was carrying out his big sweeping movement in Feb-Apr 1901. During May-July 1901 they were in the valley of the Vaal River, about the head waters of the Wilge River, and afterwards in the Western Transvaal. Private Cheeseman was killed in action at Nooitgedacht, 3 miles NW of Hekpoort, west of Pretoria. He was buried near where he fell with those killed in the same area on 13 Dec 1900. His remains were later reinterred at Krugersdorp. He is also commemorated on the 6th Dragoon Guards Boer War memorial at Ranelagh Gardens, Chelsea Embankment, South East Corner opposite Chelsea Bridge, Chelsea, London (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/111552).
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