Private Francis Warden Moncrieff
Number: 9430
Company: 46th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 3 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 21 years (born 12 December 1878, 7 Wilmont Terrace, Belfast)
Trade or calling: Engineer
Place of birth: In the Parish of Belfast, in or near the Town of Belfast, in the County of Antrim
Address: Donaghadee Road, Bangor, County Down
Family: Single. Father Charles Edward Moncrieff, insurance manager, mother Annie Moncrieff (nee Thompson), of Fairview, Bangor, County Down.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 6' 0 1/2". Complexion fresh/ fair, eyes blue, hair brown.
Religion: Church of England
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900
Date home: 20 December 1900
Actions: Lindley
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 28 January 1901
Place: Shorncliffe
Reason for discharge: At his own request
Intended place of residence: Bangor, County Down
Conduct: No documents. From personal observation and knowledge, very good.
Special qualifications: Engineer
Moncrieff was among the 400 men captured by Boer forces at Lindley in May 1900. He was released on 30 August with the other members of the 13th Battalion when the British captured Nooitgedacht. He was mentioned in a letter home by Private Marshall Donnell.
Invalided home suffering from dysentery, he was briefly hospitalised at Shorncliffe.
He later emigrated to Canada.
This page last updated 14 January 2025.