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    1. [IRL-CARLOW] Boer War 1900.
    2. Michael Purcell
    3. Carlow Sentinel. 10th February 1900. [ Transcribed by Michael Purcell, April 2013, all the following were from Carlow.] Boer War. THE CARLOW ROLL OF HONOUR. The undermentioned officers, most of whom are followers of the Carlow and Island Hounds, are now in active service in South Africa, or are on their way :- Col. Alex Rochfort, R.H.A. Major B. Lecky, R.H.A. Major B. Burton, R.H.A., already mentioned with dispatches with General French. Mr T. Archdale, R.H.A. Captain Robert Browne-Clayton, 5th Lancers, Ladysmith. Captain D.O. Eustace, 5th Dragoon Guards, Ladysmith. Mr John Eustace, South African Light Horse, killed while on patrol. Mr C. R. Eustace, Bethune's Mounted Infantry. Mr R, Rawson, Gloucester Regiment, Ladysmith. Mr Jno Duckett, 9th Lancers, Modder River Honourable William Bunbury, Scots' Greys, Natal. Capt. Fishbourne, 5th Fusiliers, wounded (invalided home to Carlow ). Mr G. Brooke, Connaught Rangers, wounded, Natal. Capt. A. Beresford, R.F.A. (commanding a squadron of the South African Light Horse ). Capt. U. Vigors, Devons, wounded Natal. Mr Percy Vigors, Connaught Rangers. Mr Urban Vigors, 18th Royal Irish. Capt. F. Henley, Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Mr G. Bayley, Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Mr G M'Clintock, 5th Lancers, Natal. Mr J. M'Clintock, 18th Hussars, Natal. Major Sir Anthony A. Weldon, Railway Staff Officer, Pietermaritzburg. Mr Bertram Weldon, 1st Leinsters (wounded ). Mr Walter Alexander, special service. Dr W. Crosthwait, A.M.D. In addition to the foregoing, the following volunteers are about to proceed to the front :- Mr D.J. Ross, C. Bagenal, H. Butler, G. Turner, and Mr Robert O' Callaghan, F.R.C.S., late Surgeon of the County Carlow Infirmary, as Surgeon-in-charge of a field hospital Corps. Mr W. Duckett-Steuart sailed on the 31st January as a volunteer in the Loyal Suffolk Hussars.

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