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Searching for my ancestor - Johannes van Brumlen / Brumelen / Brummelen 1 day 1 hour ago #102271

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Larneyjeany, unfortunately those familysearch links only work for subscribers of that site.
The deportation documents might be useful for us to see, I think, if you can post pdfs.
Otherwise we wait to see what his medal application (Vorm B - Dewald Nel can provide) tells us about his Boer War service.
What are your unanswered questions about him and the Boer War?
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Searching for my ancestor - Johannes van Brumlen / Brumelen / Brummelen 1 day 1 hour ago #102272

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Rob D,

Yes I'm aware of that - but it's easy enough to register on FamilySearch and it's free. Anyone on this forum who might be interested in helping me could simply sign up - it's not possible to download all documents from the site anyway and that site is a tremendous tool in finding and validating historical information so I'd recommend anyone to use it even if they're just doing research (not even personal Genealogy is required) . I'm not going to be able to download every single document from FamilySearch and reupload here - that's just totally unrealistic.

Regarding unanswered questions - if there was some kind of key information / situation to consider which could help me positively confirm which Johannes van Brummelen was my Great-Grandfather, based especially on information specific to the anglo boer war (so that it's applicable to this forum). That's the objective.

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Searching for my ancestor - Johannes van Brumlen / Brumelen / Brummelen 1 day 27 minutes ago #102274

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That's clear.
The Vorm B would give you his date of starting military service, what were his units and rank, and when/where/why he stopped serving. It would also give you his address when he applied (1920 onwards).
You could compare this information to the deportation documents.
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