Downard | William | | | Nominal roll #1 (D1) | Driscoll's Scouts |
Downay | S | | Able Seaman | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1879 | HMS Active |
Downe | E | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Lincolnshire Regiment |
Downe | G | | | 1st Battalion, Volunteer Service Company
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Leicestershire Regiment |
Downe | G | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | 43rd Battery, RFA |
Downe | H R (Viscount) | | Colonel | ADC. MID LG: 16 April 1901, page: 2601. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 2 April 1901. Re: General mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War | Staff |
Downe | H R (Viscount) | | Colonel | MID LG: 8 February 1901, page: 844. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 31 March 1900. Re: Orange Free State
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War | Staff |
Downe | Viscount H R | | Captain | Frontier Wars. SAGS (1) 1879 | Life Guards |
Downe | W | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Coldstream Guards |
Downe, Viscount | H R | | Colonel | Born in 1844 and is son of the 7th Viscount. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and joined the 2nd Life Guards in 1865, subsequently entering the 10th Hussars as Lieutenant Colonel in 1886, having previously served in the Zulu War with that regiment in 1879, and also acted as ADC to HRH the Duke of Connaught, and commanding the Meerut Division in India from 1883-5; acted as ADC to HRH the Duke of Cambridge from 1892-5, and commanded the Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh from 1897-9. He served throughout the Boer War in 1899-1902 (despatches), and represented HM the King as Special Envoy to the Shah of Persia in 1903. Viscount Downe retired from the Army in 1901 with the rank of Major-General. He married, in 1889, Cecilia, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Sefton.
Source: List of CB recipients. Various sources | Staff |
Downend | C E | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | (King's Own) Royal Lancaster Regiment |
Downer | A | 3256 | Corporal | QSA (5).
Source: QSA medal rolls | 3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards |
Downer | A | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | 38th Battery, RFA |
Downer | A | 330 | L Corporal | Died of enteric at Pietermaritzburg. 12 Apr 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 223 line 27 | Imperial Light Horse |
Downer | A | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | 68th Battery, RFA |
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