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In All Saints' Church, Gainsborough.

Possibly born circa December 1871, at Gainsborough, and the son of William and Ann Turtle.

"27 Pte F.Turtle" of 14H, died of disease at Kroonstad on 1/8/00. My "Cavalry" CD shows his QSA as bearing the clasps "Cape Colony", "Orange Free State", "Tugela Heights" and "Relief of Ladysmith".
Marginal; note says "from 10th Hussars number 3015".
A simple and tasteful memorial.
Regards
Il.

The standard 14th King's Hussars' memorial plaque.

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...king-s-hussars#18295

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...king-s-hussars#16086

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...-died-4-1-1903#24690

Indeed, but, only until 1915!

BereniceUK wrote: The standard 14th King's Hussars' memorial plaque.

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...king-s-hussars#18295

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...king-s-hussars#16086

www.angloboerwar.com/forum/17-memorials-...-died-4-1-1903#24690

British Memorial, Kroonstad North Cemetery

Trooper Fred Turtle was not a happy soldier even before he set foot on South African soil as his New Year’s Eve 1899 letter home shows:

Retford & Worksop Herald, 3 February 1900

LOCAL LETTERS FROM THE FRONT

Trooper Fred Turtle, 27, A Squadron, 14th Hussars, whose parents live in Gainsboro’, has sent a letter to his sister, Mrs Oliver, Shell Cottage, London Road, Retford. On board S.S Victorian, three days out from Cape Town, December 30th, 1899:- “We have had a pretty good voyage so far, but this last few days it has been a bit rough. The weather from Las Palmas was bright when we crossed the line the water was like a pond. But it changes as you get nearer the Cape – warm days and cold nights. The way we have been treated on board is awful. We had tobacco, pipes and beer, beside woollen caps. These they did give us and other articles presented us by kind friends in England. They are such big rogues to take them from us and we have to buy them if we want them back again, and the food is awful! No butter or tinned stuff. And when they had that you had to pay about 1s 4d for salmon, 1s 9d per lb for cheese, and other things as dear. On Christmas Day the dinner was frozen beef, boiled potatoes as black as soot and plum pudding, the best of the lot. For dessert, quarter of an orange a man, four Sultana raisins, two little nuts, half a banana and four almonds, of beer they would not give us a drop although plenty aboard. If you go to the steward and try to get a bottle of beer he charges from 9d to 1s 3d., something awful, and Englishmen at that. I hope and trust that I shall come home again, when I will see that the people of England shall know how we have been treated.”

Sadly Fred never returned home to air his grievances against other Englishmen.