by Allan Gordon | Nov 5, 2020 | Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Shortly after the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914, in poor health and suffering from depression, Colonel Robert George Kekewich took his own life at the age of 60 on 5 November 1914. He had been invalided from his command and hospitalized. During the South African War...
by Allan Gordon | Nov 4, 2020 | Deaths, South African War 1899 - 1902
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Whitelaw Thorneycroft died on 4 November 1931, aged 72. He is buried in Reading, UK. He served in the Royal Scotch Fusiliers, and saw action in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the First Boer War (1881) where he took part in the Defence of...
