Private John Lockhart
Number: 9507
Company: 54th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 19 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 22 years stated on enlistment. (Born 16 April 1878 at 18 Agnes Street, Belfast.)
Trade or calling: Winding-master
Place of birth: In the Parish of Shankill, in or near the Town of Belfast, in the County of Antrim
Address: 18 Agnes Street, Belfast
Family: Single. Father Isaac Lockhart, winding-master, mother Mary Lockhart (nee Wright), of 18 Agnes Street, Belfast.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 8 3/4". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair brown. Four scars on back.
Religion: Presbyterian
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900
Date home: June-November 1900
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 4 December 1900
Place: United Kingdom
Reason for discharge: Medicallybunfit for further service.
Lockhart was among the 400 men of the 13th Battalion captured by Boer forces at Lindley on 31 May 1900. As he had been severely wounded, he was one of those left behind by the Boers at Lindley, and was released when the British relieving force arrived the following day.
At the time of the 1901 Census he was living at 18 Agnes Street with his parents and six siblings, and was recorded as 'Late Imp. Yeo, 54th, pensioner'.
On 11 June 1903 he married Maggie Browne in the Belmont Presbyterian Church, Belfast. He recorded his address as Portadown and his occupation as a clerk. Their child Frederick was born on 25 April 1905 at 14 Burnebra [Burnbrae] Avenue Portadown. Soon after this the family emigrated to Canada. John died in Victoria, British Columbia, on 25 August 1951 and was buried in the Royal Oak Burial Park.
This page last updated 14 August 2026.