David, Thank you very much for your information. The Thomas Sharp is an unusual one. I have a note of his entry in the list of Scots who died abroad. It's a kind of register for people who were abroad at the time. It lists his place of death as a station hospital at Benares, which I beleive is in Pakistan, however he is named on a gravestone in Glasgow as having died in South Africa in 1900. I will try and find the entry I made which should list his service number. Thank you for the information about the McNay connection. It is possible there is a family connection and will try and find out more. David McNay ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Humphry" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [BOER-WAR] Thomas Sharp Hello David, The casualty list shows 10 men called Sharp and 9 called Sharpe who died in the Boer War but none with the initial T and none shown as died of jaundice. It's not unknown for these lists to give an incorrect initial but without further information it will be pretty well impossible to progress this particular line of enquiry. There is no McNay shown as died but there is only one in the entire list. He was wounded and he has the correct initial. He is 4847 Pte. T. McNay 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers wounded at Venters Spruit 20/1/1900. This action was part of the campaign to relieve Ladysmith and 4 days later the battalion was badly cut up at Spion Kop so his earlier wound may well have saved him from a worse fate there. It's not certain that this is your man but the name is unusual and I think it's worth following up. The Lancashire Fusiliers Museum has the basic details of recruits into their two regular battalions for the period 1881 until about 1902 in the original attestation book. I once had the privilege of looking through it but it had become a bit fragile so they were in the process of transferring the details onto a database. They will check an entry but as the museum receives no official funding and the small staff are unpaid volunteers an enquiry should be accompanied by a donation. £10 is about right. The museum's address is: Lancashire Fusiliers Regimental Museum Wellington Barracks Bury Lancashire BL8 2PL I don't have an e-mail address but an internet search might reveal one. Regards, David ----- Original Message ----- From: d_mcnay <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 6:34 AM Subject: Re: [BOER-WAR] Thomas Sharp > Looking for information about a Private Thomas Sharp who I beleive died in > South Africa in 1900. I know he died of jaundice, but would be interested to > know if anyone can tell me what regiment he served in. I can look for his > service number if that would be useful. It's possible he may be listed as > Thomas McNay, as he was born illegitemate and used both names it seems. > > Many thanks, > > David McNay ==== BOER-WAR Mailing List ==== Have you used Tree Tops? The Free FAMILY TREE & WE'LL MEET AGAIN SERVICE http://freespace.virgin.net/tree.tops ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237