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Lance Corporal James Porter

 

 

Number: 34509

Company: 99th (Irish) Company, 8th Battalion. (Initially recorded as 60th (North Irish Horse) Company(Belfast).)

ENLISTMENT

Date: 14 February 1901

Place: Belfast

Age: 21 years 8 months

Trade of calling: Clerk

Place of birth: In the Parish of Portrush, in or near the Town of Portrush, in the County of Antrim.

Family: Single. Father William John Porter, teacher, mother Catherine (nee Clarke), of 1 Mark Street, Portrush. Nine siblings.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 10 1/4". Complexion fresh, eyes brown, hair brown.

Religion: Not recorded on enlistment form, but family Presbyterian in 1901 Census.

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 13 April 1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, 1901 and 1902 clasps.

DEATH

Date: 30 January 1902

Place: Military Hospital, Piquetberg

Cause: Dysentery

Buried/ commemorated: Piquetberg Old Cemetery

 

Piquetberg Old Cemetery. Porter's individual grave cannot be identified, but is assumed to be amongst the twenty-four graves laid out in two ranks.

 

Ballywillan Cemetery, Portrush

 

Coleraine Chronicle, 13 April 1901

 

Northern Constitution, 8 February 1902

 

Cemetery images sourced from the Find a Grave site. Image of Porter from Northern Constitution, 8 February 1902.

This page last updated 22 August 2024.