Hello Thelma, The Life Guards were - and still are - part of the Household Cavalry which is technically the monarch's personal cavalry bodyguard. Together with the Blues and Royals they are still used as ceremonial mounted troops as well as being a mechanised unit which can be called upon in times of conflict. Now for the bad news. I have the cavalry medal roll and there is no Crawshaw shown as being in the Life Guards and the casualty lists show no cavalryman called Crawshaw as having died in the Boer War. The only J. Crawshaw is Lieut. & Riding Master John Rolan Crawshaw of the 20th Hussars but he survived the war unscathed. The only other Crawshaw in the cavalry was Sgt. A. Crawshaw of the 6th Dragoon Guards who was severely wounded at Springbokfontein 28/1/1902 but survived. The only Crawshaw who died in the war was Pte. W.H. Crawshaw of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (an infantry unit) who died of enteric fever. Regards, David ----- Original Message ----- From: Thelma Goodnow <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 2:50 PM Subject: [BOER-WAR] John Crawshaw > Hello List, > I'm looking for info on my Gr Uncle John Crawshaw. The only info. I have is that he was born 1873 in Fockerby, Lincoln. He was a soldier in the Lifeguards Reg. and was killed in the Boer War in So.Africa. I would like to know where he was killed and where and when he was buried > > Thanks > Thelma.
Hi David, Thanks for all your looking for J. Crawshaw.I'll have to see if any of my sisters can shed any light on him. perhaps they can write to his decendants to find this info.for me. They won't write to me because I've discovered things they wanted left alone. Thanks again for trying. Sincerely Thelma ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Humphry" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:23 AM Subject: Re: [BOER-WAR] John Crawshaw > Hello Thelma, > > The Life Guards were - and still are - part of the Household Cavalry which > is technically the monarch's personal cavalry bodyguard. Together with the > Blues and Royals they are still used as ceremonial mounted troops as well as > being a mechanised unit which can be called upon in times of conflict. > > Now for the bad news. I have the cavalry medal roll and there is no Crawshaw > shown as being in the Life Guards and the casualty lists show no cavalryman > called Crawshaw as having died in the Boer War. The only J. Crawshaw is > Lieut. & Riding Master John Rolan Crawshaw of the 20th Hussars but he > survived the war unscathed. The only other Crawshaw in the cavalry was Sgt. > A. Crawshaw of the 6th Dragoon Guards who was severely wounded at > Springbokfontein 28/1/1902 but survived. The only Crawshaw who died in the > war was Pte. W.H. Crawshaw of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (an infantry > unit) who died of enteric fever. > > Regards, > > David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Thelma Goodnow <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 2:50 PM > Subject: [BOER-WAR] John Crawshaw > > > > Hello List, > > I'm looking for info on my Gr Uncle John Crawshaw. The only info. I have > is that he was born 1873 in Fockerby, Lincoln. He was a soldier in the > Lifeguards Reg. and was killed in the Boer War in So.Africa. I would like to > know where he was killed and where and when he was buried > > > > Thanks > > Thelma. > > > > > > > > ==== BOER-WAR Mailing List ==== > C J Genealogical Collections > Web Page http://freespace.virgin.net/genealogical.collections > > ============================== > 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 > > >