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St John's Church Cemetery & Memorial Plaque, Edinburgh Scotland

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Laurens Smitz Meintjes (1868-1941) the first South African athlete who has a green vest in a foreign country. Meintjes in 1893 prevailed in the cycling world championships in Chicago. He did not represent South Africa officially , but his club, the Wanderers' Amateur Cycling Club.

QSA,KSA Cape Town Highlanders Captain & Adjutant

F. E. 'Fred' Bacon was an English middle-distance runner and briefly held the amateur world record for the mile.

In February 1900, it was reported in the press that he had been called up as a reservist, and was going out to South Africa as officer's servant for Major Henderson, of the Manchester Regiment.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Bacon

Major Wilfred Nash Bolton, O.B.E, late Wiltshire Regiment, 1862 - 1930, was the Provost Marshal at Pietersburg in 1902. He took over from Captain Burns-Begg as the Prosecutor in the Bushveld Carbineers Courts Martial, which led to the executions of Lieutenants ‘Breaker’ Morant and Peter Handcock.

He was a household name in the 1880’s as ‘Baby’ Bolton, the three quarter who played rugby for England in eleven internationals. He was on the winning side seven times.

Lieutenant Edward Challenor, of Barbados, served in the Leicestershire Regiment during the ABW; he played county cricket in England for Leicestershire, and for Western Province and Natal in South Africa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Challenor

Grantley (or Grantly) Thomas Smart Goulding served in the Imperial Light Horse during the ABW - in the 1896 Olympic Games, held at Athens, he won a silver medal in the 110 metre hurdles, running for Great Britain. In fairness, it should be pointed out that there was only one other runner in the final race.
A year or so later, he went to live in South Africa for his health, and enlisted in the ILH shortly after the outbreak of war. He doesn't appear to have been a particularly pleasant person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantley_Goulding