J. Jacobs
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
Comedy actor. Â Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Â Worked as a diamond sorter and th...
HMS Monarch, Royal Marine Artillery, South Africa.
Born Spitalfields. Â South African mining magnate and businessman. The web provides the following anecdote: Early in 1898, just before leaving for South Africa, Woolf gave a dinner party at the Sav...