Surname: 
Forename: 
No: 
Rank: 
Notes: 
Unit: 
Search Options:
Records per Page:

 Surname   Forename   No   Rank   Notes   Unit 
CongreveW N Captain Wounded at Colenso. 15 Dec 1899.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 207 line 11
(Prince Consort's Own) Rifle Brigade
CongreveW NBrevet Lieutenant ColonelMID LG: 29 July 1902, page: 4835. Source: General Kitchener. 23 June 1902. Re: Final despatch & mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War
(Prince Consort's Own) Rifle Brigade
CongreveW NCaptainMID LG: 8 February 1901, page: 847. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 31 March 1900. Re: Orange Free State
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War
(Prince Consort's Own) Rifle Brigade
CongreveW NCapt/AdjtSource: Nominal roll in WO127Kitchener's Horse
CongreveWalter NorrisCaptainCONGREVE, WALTER NORRIS, Captain, was born 20 November 1862, son of William Congreve, JP, DL, of Congreve, Staffs, and Burton Hall, Cheshire, and Fanny Emma, daughter of Lee Porcher Townshend, of Wincham Hall, Chester.  He was educated at Harrow, and entered the Rifle Brigade in 1885.  He became Captain in 1893.  He served in the Boer War of 1899-1902.  Was mentioned in Despatches twice, received the Queen's Medal with seven clasps, the King's Medal with two clasps, the Brevet of Lieutenant Colonel, and the Victoria Cross [London Gazette, 7 February 1900]: 'Walter Norris Congreve, Captain, The Rifle Brigade.  Date of Act of Bravery: 15 December 1899.  At Colenso, on the 15th December 1899, the detachments serving the guns of the 14th and 66th Batteries, Royal Field Artillery, had all been either killed, wounded, or driven from their guns by infantry fire at close range, and the guns were deserted.  About 500 yards behind the guns was a donga, in which some of the few horses and drivers left alive were sheltered.  The intervening space was swept with shell and rifle fire.  Captain Congreve, Rifle Brigade, who was in the donga, assisted to hook a team into a limber, went out and assisted to limber up a gun.  Being wounded, he took shelter, but seeing Lieutenant Roberts fall badly wounded, he went out and brought him in.  Captain Congreve was shot through the leg, the toe of his boot, grazed on the elbow and shoulder, and his horse shot in three places'.  He won the Victoria Gross with several others in an attempt to save Colonel Long's guns at Colenso.  Captain Congreve served on the Staff in South Africa, as AMS and Private Secretary to Lord Kitchener.  In 1900 he married Celia, daughter of Captain C B La Touche, and they had three sons, one of whom was Major Congreve, VC, DSO, MC who won his VS on the Somme.  He was promoted Major, and Lieutenant Colonel on 21 December 1901.  In December 1902, he became Assistant Military Secretary and ADC to HRH the Duke of Connaught in Ireland, being made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order by His Majesty the King when on a visit to that country in 1903.  He became Major-General in 1915, and Lieutenant General 1918, and was created a KCB in 1917.  He lost his left hand in 1917 and wore a prosthetic replacement.  General Sir W N Congreve was a Commander of the Legion of Honour and held the Order of St Anne of Russia, First Class.  Congreve became governor of Malta and died while in office on 26 February 1927.  He was buried at sea and commemorated by a stone pillar on the Maltese South Coast and by a tablet in Stow-by Chartley church in Staffordshire.  VC, KCMG, Order of St John Knight of Grace, MVO, QSA (7) CC Paard RofL Drie Joh DH Belf, KSA (2), 1914 Star and bar, BWM, VM & MID, 1902 Coronation Medal, Russia Order of St Anne of Russia (1st Class), France Legion of Honour (Commandeur), Rumania Order of the Crown 3rd class.  RHQ.
Source: VC recipients (VC and DSO book)
(Prince Consort's Own) Rifle Brigade
ConianJ5558PrivatePrisoner. Stormberg, 10 December 1899
2nd Battalion.
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll
Royal Irish Rifles
ConianJ P898PrivateDied of disease. Charlestown, 18 July 1901
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll
Johannesburg Mounted Rifles
ConianS6087PrivateDied of disease. Lydenburg, 22 February 1901
1st Battalion.
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll
Devonshire Regiment
ConianS1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
Devonshire Regiment
ConianS6087Private1st Battalion
Demise: Died of disease 22 Feb 1901
Place: Lydenburg
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt
Devonshire Regiment
ConibearE2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
Gloucestershire Regiment
ConibeareE2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
Gloucestershire Regiment
ConibeerG1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
Devonshire Regiment
ConibereE4258PrivatePrisoner. Dewetsdorp, 23 November 1900
2nd Battalion. Released 5 December
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll
Gloucestershire Regiment
ConibereE2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
Gloucestershire Regiment
Page 8782 of 50206
<<First <Prev 8775 8776 8777 8778 8779 8780 87818782 8783 8784 8785 8786 8787 8788 8789 Next> Last>>