Hello, thanks for your reply. I am hoping to find out how an officer who was commissioned into the Hamphire Regiment ended up serving with the East Griqualand Mounted Rifles who I understood to be a volunteer regiment or irregular unit?

Hi Margaret, I think you will get a more informed answer than mine!, What I have learned is that, Gen Roberts? required each regiment to proved a group of mounted infantry, for instance in my grandfathers case, he served at battle sites as a mounted soldier that the Manchester regiment were not listed as being present. However the bars on his medal prove that he was there. May be you are looking at a similar directive. Have you been able to find anything on the composition of the Griqualand Mounted Rifles , as an officer he may have been in charge of such a group. June On 8/28/05, MarMnkly@aol.com <MarMnkly@aol.com> wrote: > > Hello, thanks for your reply. I am hoping to find out how an officer who > was > commissioned into the Hamphire Regiment ended up serving with the East > who I understood to be a volunteer regiment or irregular > unit? > > > ==== BOER-WAR Mailing List ==== > Boer War Links > http://freespace.virgin.net/anglers.rest/BoerWarLinks.htm > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com <http://Ancestry.com>'s United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > -- juno@firecube.co.uk / M.J.Adderley

Hi - It wasn't unusual for regular officers in British regiments to be seconded to locally raised South African units, especially newly formed units, in the Boer War. The idea was to provide the new units with trained and experienced officers. Regards, David MarMnkly@aol.com wrote:Hello, thanks for your reply. I am hoping to find out how an officer who was commissioned into the Hamphire Regiment ended up serving with the East Griqualand Mounted Rifles who I understood to be a volunteer regiment or irregular unit? ==== BOER-WAR Mailing List ==== Boer War Links http://freespace.virgin.net/anglers.rest/BoerWarLinks.htm ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail