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From: Lehmkuhl <>
Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] Re: BRITISH ARMY UNITS CAPE COLONY 1890s
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:26:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200401221222.i0MCMMCn010601@lists2.rootsweb.com>


>From: GAVIN MEESER <>
>
>Does anyone have any idea which British army units/regiments etc were
>deployed in the Cape Colony between 1891 and 1897?
>
>I am trying to establish what my British born grandfather was doing
>between 1891 and 1897. He was still in England in 1891 and he then
>resurfaces in the Cape Colony in 1897. I have reason to believe that he
>may have joined the army sometime after 1891 and was subsequently
>deployed in South Africa.
>
>If so, I should be able to trace him in British national archives (I live
>in UK) but it'd help if I had some idea of where to start looking!
>
>Thanks
>Gavin

Dear Gavin
Try to get a copy of the following book:

History of the British Regiments in South Africa 1795-1895
by W. Brinton
published in London by Macdonald in 1975

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Anne Lehmkuhl
Ottawa, Canada
South African genealogy without borders: http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/


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