Sergeant Albert Richard Wagg (or Wegg)
Number: 9424
Company: 46th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 11 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 25 years 3 months
Trade or calling: Clerk (manager's office, Northern Counties Railway)
Place of birth: In the Parish of Dublin, in or near the Town of Dublin, in the County of Dublin
Address: 34 Upper Meadow Street
Family: Father Albert Richard Wagg, shopkeeper, mother Charlotte Elizabeth Wagg (nee Church), of Linton Terrace, Elder Road, West Norwood, London
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 10 1/2". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair brown. Scar left leg.
Religion: Church of England
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900
Date home: __
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 12 March 1901
Place: Johannesburg
Reason for discharge: Discharged to join Imperial Military Railways
Wagg 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.
Image from The Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 14 July 1900.
This page last updated 19 November 2024.