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In All Saints' Church, Kirkby Overblow, about four miles south of Harrogate, Yorkshire. Francis was born at Huddersfield, in 1863, his father then being vicar of St Thomas' Church in that town. After 33 years there, by then a canon, and in ill-health, Edmund was offered the position of rector at Kirkby Overblow, in succession to Canon Toogood, who was the father of Mrs Snowden. Canon Snowden died at Kirkby Overblow after just over eighteen months there, and a small memorial plaque is dedicated to him in the church.The plaque dedicated to Francis was in place by 1903, and he's also named on the Old Derbians memorial tablet for Derby School pupils.

From the death notice in the London Standard it would seem that Francis may have been at Streatham School, South West London, prior to his death. Perhaps a master at the school, who went out to South Africa after the outbreak of war, and joined the S.A.L.H. in late 1899?


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. ....A War Office telegram from Sir Redvers Buller, dated Ladysmith, 19th April, says:
....The following casualties occurred in reconnaisance near Elandslaagte, 17th April:
Wounded—South African Light Horse.—1094 Corporal F. Snowden (severely), 1583 Trooper X De Villiers (dangerously), 1645 Trooper A. Baker (dangerously).
Missing—992 Trooper J. Burns.
Yorkshire Evening Post, Thursday 19th April 1900
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From the General of Communications to the Secretary of State for War. ....The following deaths are reported [including]: South African Light Horse.—1049 Corporal F. Snowden (erysipelas), April 27.
The Standard, Wednesday 2nd May 1900
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. SNOWDEN.—On April 27th, at the Base Hospital, Maritzburg, from gunshot wound, Francis Henry Snowden, S.A.L.H., second son of the late Rev. Canon Snowden and Mrs. Snowden, of Streatham School, S.W., aged 36.
The Standard, Saturday 12th May 1900

Fort Napier Cemetery