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Linneyl

The Commonwealth War Graves list show: Private B. Doe [973] - St Johns Ambulance [ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS] died at Ladysmith on 1900/06/22.

Elmarie

Elmarie
Thank you for that correction. Just now, I had a look in SAFF and Pte B.Doe SJAB/RAMC does not show there either. Sometimes, Palmer misses entries. Looks like another unrecorded fatality.
Best regards
IL.

LinneyI wrote: Elmarie
Thank you for that correction. Just now, I had a look in SAFF and Pte B.Doe SJAB/RAMC does not show there either. Sometimes, Palmer misses entries. Looks like another unrecorded fatality.
Best regards
IL.

Doe is on The Register (and FmP) - correct he is missed out by SAFF (and therefore Palmer and everyone else who copied SAFF blindly).

I picked him up off war memorials:
Destroyed. St John. Tablet. St John's Ambulance Brigade Clerkenwell London England
St Paul's Cathedral Crypt. Tablet. Metropolitan Corps St John's Ambulance Brigade City London England
Disappeared. Formerly Town Hall, Dyne Rd Willesden London England

Coincidentally his initial "B" is a contraction as Ian hinted at when asking if Pte W Doe Middlesex Rgt was this man. He was known as "Bertie".

Regards
Meurig

BereniceUK wrote:

SWB wrote: It had been in the Town Hall, Dyne Rd. This building was demolished and this is when the memorial went walkabout.

The town hall was demolished in 1972; I suppose it got into the hands of a dealer, but how did it get to somewhere like Omaha? It's not something that would be taken in someone's luggage, so maybe part of a job lot of British signs and memorabilia bought up by an American dealer.

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