Annette, Some more information about 1st Scottish Horse and what Trooper Egan probably did. The S.H. was not just recruited from Scots in S. Africa, I failed to read on. Using the Highland Association and Caledonian Association they recruited later from Australia, Canada, and UK. They were well thought of by regular officers. They were employed against the boers in the East and West Transvaal as irregular mounted infantry. Some times they patrolled alone, other times with regular and other irregular MI and regular infantry. Given the short period he was with the Natal railways I think he went to that job from the SH. The war was over by May 31st 1902 which gives him six months. I cannot prove that but offer it as a possibility. Cheers John JOHN CRONIN CHRISTCHURCH DORSET UK NOLITE ME CULPARE-SUFFRAGATUS SUM ERAE PORCELLAE
Hi John, thankyou so much for this information, we have only just recently found out he was in the Boer War, so this is wonderful, he has been a bit of mystery person, we knew about his childhood, 2 marriages and his death date, so this is extra, thankyou so much, happy hunting Annette At 10:18 PM 20/11/2005 -0500, you wrote: >Annette, >Some more information about 1st Scottish Horse and what Trooper Egan >probably did. The S.H. was not just recruited from Scots in S. Africa, I >failed to >read on. Using the Highland Association and Caledonian Association they >recruited later from Australia, Canada, and UK. They were well thought >of by >regular officers. They were employed against the boers in the East and West >Transvaal as irregular mounted infantry. Some times they patrolled alone, >other >times with regular and other irregular MI and regular infantry. > >Given the short period he was with the Natal railways I think he went to >that job from the SH. The war was over by May 31st 1902 which gives him six >months. I cannot prove that but offer it as a possibility. > >Cheers > >John >JOHN CRONIN CHRISTCHURCH DORSET UK > >NOLITE ME CULPARE-SUFFRAGATUS SUM ERAE PORCELLAE > > >==== BOER-WAR Mailing List ==== >List Admin Message >http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections/AdminMessage.htm > >============================== >Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx