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Private Frederick Joseph Madden

 

Number: 11242

Company: 61st (South Irish Horse) Company (Dublin), 17th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 15 February 1900

Place: Newbridge

Age: 20 years

Trade of calling: Clerk

Place of birth: In the Parish of Ballymoe, near the Town of Ballymoe, in the County of Galway

Family: Father John Madden J.P., Hermitage, Ballymoe, Galway

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 9 1/4". Complexion fair, eyes grey, hair fair.

Religion: Other Protestant

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 6 April 1900

Campaigns: South Africa 1899-1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal; Rhodesia clasp

DEATH

Date: 18 October 1900

Place: Gwanda/ Manzinyama

Cause: Pneunonia

Buried/ commemorated: Near Manzinyama

 

At Manzinyama Trooper Madden of the 60th had to be left behind, suffering from pneumonia. He did not again join the Squadron for upon their return by the same route, his comrades rode a little out of their way to visit his lonely grave. (Sharrad H. Gilbert, Rhodesia - And After: Being the Story of the 17th and 18th Battalions of the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, 1901.)

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