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Private Alfred Blair Smyly

 

Number: 25172

Company: 74th (Dublin) Company (New), 8th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 4 February 1901

Place: Curragh

Age: 22 years 6 months

Trade of calling: Nil

Place of birth: In the Parish of Langfield, in or near the Town of Langfield, in the County of Tyrone

Family: Not married. Father the Rev. William Archibald Smyly, clergyman, mother Annie Smyly (nee Brown), of Kilkullen Rectory, Kilcullen, County Kildare.

Previous military service: No

Description: Height 5' 9 1/4". Complexion pale, eyes hazel, hair dark brown. Scar on sternum.

Religion: Church of England

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 22 March 1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901 clasps.

DEATH

Date: 22 November 1901

Place: Kimberley Hospital

Cause: Wounds received at Rooikopjes on 24 August 1901.

Buried/ commemorated: Kimberley

 

Northern Constitution, 31 August 1901

 

Dublin Evening Mail, 26 November 1901

This page last updated 28 August 2024.