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He resigned his commission on 5 November 1902.

Justin

Hi Justin,

I have been through many pages of the RIF roll but still cannot find him. I checked the main and supplementary pages for his name and close matches but nothing

Other than the sparsely detailed Army List entry, I cannot prove he was there .. yet.

Kind regards
David

Either this chap operated under a non de plume or he wasn't there!

I can't find him either and I trawled throught the entire RIF medal roll.

Are you sure he wasn't the journalist that wrote the article...?

Regards

Rory

[LoL it was the sword that did it for me, a sword? really?

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Re the story about De Wet, I am not aware that he surrendered to anyone.

I imagine many family histories recount the capture and surrender of Mr De Wet and claim it as their own?

Afternoon to all; thanks muchly for your help. Seems like him being in the Matabele Uprising and Boer is a good yarn. If I can fathom out seeing if he did attend WW1 on French Front and find that he didn't then undoubtedly he's a fake. He did have a cousin Kevin Launcelot Duffield who, apparently, made Capt with the Devon and Warwickshire Regiments in WW1.
John Hugh Walter's father Col. Frank Makin went to England about 1897 as an Inspector of Warlike Materials for 2-3yrs and it is likely that J H W and/or younger brother Ernest Llewellyn went with him and 1 or both went to Sandhurst.
J H W's father-in-law was Lt Col Joseph Thomas Sleep who ran an optician watchmaker business in Ballarat when JHW unexpectedly died in his house. So perhaps a yarn about surrendering sword and person was good for business. We'll see!
Anyway many thanks lexa aka Paddy