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Daniel Tarplee was my Great Grandfather.
I was delighted to find this plaque. I have recently come across old family papers telling me about him.
I also have a photo of his gravestone..
The papers says he had liver abscess and was operated on.
He also had dysentery three times after leaving the army.
When he arrived in England he was an inmate of Netley Hospital and in hospital at the depot, Preston Lacashire.

Really nice to see, simple and as always, nicely done.

BereniceUK wrote: In St Michael's Church, Cropthorne, Worcestershire. I didn't come across a headstone, or family stone, at St Michael's with his name on, although there are Tarplees buried there.

It is interesting to note he was invalided home from India, so after his time spent in South Africa, being discharged as unfit for further service on the 30th of September 1903, after eleven years of service, over four of which were spent in South Africa, initially as part of the pre war garrison.

Bagpuss wrote: Daniel Tarplee was my Great Grandfather.
I was delighted to find this plaque. I have recently come across old family papers telling me about him.
I also have a photo of his gravestone..
The papers says he had liver abscess and was operated on.
He also had dysentery three times after leaving the army.
When he arrived in England he was an inmate of Netley Hospital and in hospital at the depot, Preston Lacashire.

Daniel Tarplee IS buried at Cropthorne, I just didn't spot his headstone. birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?...storians-dream.2259/