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Private James Carlisle

 

Number: 33267

Company: 74th (Dublin) Company (New), 8th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 2 March 1901

Place: Belfast

Age: 32 years (stated on enlistment, though given the date of his first marriage, he was clearly much older).

Trade of calling: Insurance agent

Place of birth: In the Parish of Shankill, in or near the Town of Belfast, in the County of Antrim.

Family: Wife Emily Carlisle (nee Parke), 27 Thompson Street, Belfast, married Londonderry 20 April 1892; children John Herbert (born 4 February 1893), William Henry (born 19 March 1894), Edith (born 19 October 1897) - all three in Belfast. Two other children had died very young. James also had a number of other children through an earlier marriage (in 1882) to Isabella (nee Totten.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 7 1/2". Complexion fresh, eyes brown, hair brown.

Religion: Church of England

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 6 April 1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901 clasps.

DEATH

Date: 24 August 1901

Place: Rooikopjes

Cause: Wounds sustained the same day at Rooikopjes

Buried/ commemorated: Griquatown, later re-interred in West End Cemetery, Kimberley/ West End Cemetery Memorial, and St Andrew's Church Memorial, Dublin.

 

Belfast News-Letter, 2 September 1901

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