Sergeant Humphrey Foy
Number: 11096
Company: 46th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent - reinforcement draft
ENLISTMENT
Date: 10 February 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 24 years
Trade of calling: Royal Irish Constabulary
Place of birth: In the Parish of Donegal, near the Town of __, in the County of Donegal
Address: Donegal
Family: Father Henry Foy, RIC pensioner (1901), mother Elizabeth Ann Foy, of 54 Cooke Street, Belfast.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 10 1/8". Complexion fresh, eyes hazel, hair fair. Scar left eyebrow.
Religion: Presbyterian
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: March-April 1900
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State clasps.
DEATH
Date: 19 October 1900
Place: Kroonstad
Cause: Enteric fever
Buried/ Commemorated: Kroonstad Cemetery and Memorial
Prior to enlisting in the Imperial Yeomanry, Foy served in the Royal Irish Constabulary (No.56603), having joined on 15 August 1894.
Constabulary Gazette, Dublin, 3 November 1900
Image from the Belfast Evening Telegraph, 9 August 1900.
This page last updated 26 March 2025.