Anglo Boer War

Surname

Forename

Rank

Notes

Unit

Cary

4251

Private

Wounded at Potgieter's Drift. 5 Feb 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 199 line 23

(Prince Consort's Own) Rifle Brigade

Cary

Spencer Colin

Occupation: Timekeeper. Address: Somerset East .
Source: Attestation paper in WO126

Town Guard and District Mounted Troops

Cary

Thomas Boncy

Next of kin: H B Cary. Address: Tarkastad CC .
Source: Attestation paper in WO126

Town Guard and District Mounted Troops

Cary

Thomas Bovey

Source: WO100/285

Tarkastad TG

Cary

Source: WO100/286

Vryburg TG

Cary

Source: WO100/279

Cape Government Railways

Cary

W A

Trooper

BSACM Matabeleland 1893 (0). William Arthur Cary was born in 1872, the fourth son of Colonel Francis Cary, and accompanied his father to South Africa in 1888, when the latter commanded the 1st Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Completing his education at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Capetown, where he gained a reputation for being an excellent shot - as a Sergeant-Major in the School Corps he won a challenge cup for rifle shooting with the highest score ever made at that time - young William enlisted in the British South Africa Police on the same day as his brother, Trooper C. W. Cary, in May 1891. Still a member of the Company's Police after it had been re-titled the Mashonaland Mounted Police in the following year, he volunteered to serve in the Matabele War in 1893, when he was appointed a Trooper in Captain Heany's Troop in the Salisbury Horse. Cary was dangerously wounded in the engagement at Imbembezi on 1 November 1893, being shot through the head and never regaining consciousness - he died about five miles from Thabas Induna on the 3rd, and was buried that morning alongside Trooper Julius Siebert who had been similarly wounded in the same action. His Commanding Officer wrote:'He was a general favourite, an adept at all field sports, and a clever lad all round; and his death is sincerely regretted by his comrades. He was generally anxious - being a wonderfully good shot - to make good shooting at Imbembezi, and it was in eagerly exposing himself with that object that he was hit in the head with a Martini bullet.’ BSACM Matabeleland 1893, no clasp (Troopr. W. A. Cary, Salisbury Horse) DNW June 2008 £1000.
Source: BSACM rolls

Salisbury Horse

Caryl

James E

9030

Trooper

Source: Nominal roll in WO127

Kitchener's Horse

Caryll

Henry William

Occupation: Chief Clerk. Next of kin: Miss E Caryll. Address: Luton England .
Source: Attestation paper in WO126

Town Guard and District Mounted Troops

Carze