Islingtonian who died in the South African War, 1899-1903
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William H. Waddell
Commemorated ati
South African War
We are told by the people at The Register of the Anglo-Boer War that this war...
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Major Matthew Meiklejohn, VC
Gained his VC, and lost his right arm, as a captain in the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders in South Africa at the battle of Elandslaagte, during the Boer War. He died following a fall from his h...
Lieutenant Charles Campbell Wood
Hero. R.A.F (South African Artillery). On 27 December 1919 he dived into the Thames from the upstream footway of Hammersmith Bridge and saved a drowning woman. He contracted tetanus as a consequenc...
Stanley Short
Leading Fireman killed as a result of an air raid on Plaistow Road, E15 on 19 March 1941. Stanley Short was born on 1 November 1904, the son Henry John Short (1873-1956) and Charlotte Short née H...
Cyril Connolly
Literary critic and writer.  Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa and Ireland as well as England.  Educated, with George Orwell and Cecil Beaton, at a school in Eastbourne.  Edited Hori...
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