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Private John Kelly

 

Number: 42917

Company: 175th (Irish Horse) Company, 29th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 18 January 1902

Place: Dublin

Age: 32 years

Trade of calling: Bank clerk

Place of birth: In the Parish of Maylough, in or near the Town of __, in the County of Galway

Family: Single. Mother Mary Kelly, Mountballow Bridge, County Galway

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 9 1/2". Complexion fresh, eyes hazel, hair black.

Religion: Roman Catholic

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 28 May 1902

Service medal, clasps and other awards: No

DEATH

Date: 5 January 1903

Place: At sea on board H.S. Nubia having been invalided home.

Cause: Dysentery

Buried/ commemorated: At sea.

 

Medical Board, No.1 General Hospital, Wynberg, 18 November 1902:

Patient states that he was first taken ill 10th October 1902, and was sent to hospital. The cause is in all probability due to infected water supply. At present the patient does not suffer much from dysentery, but is troubled considerably with dyspepsia, and symptoms of congestion of the liver. Very little flesh meat can be taken. ... Proposed for change to England.

Kelly embarked for England from Cape Town on the Hospital Transport Nubia on 22 December. However while at sea he suffered a severe relapse. He died on 5 January 1903.

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