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I think I've now solved most of the conundrums, record gaps and errors for the SJAB orderlies who died in SA, were buried at sea or who became ill on the voyage home and died in England. Some SJAB men were specially enlisted as SJAB in the RAMC under Army Order 86/1901 but were not included in the SJAB SA medal roll. The date and place of death and specific causes have now been established for all the confirmed SJAB members except 114 Supernumerary Officer William PEGLEY who remains elusive. A few more memorials in SA & UK (some need images or better quality images) have been found and some of the missing graves identified by Beighton & de Villiers have now been located and images provided by the SA War Graves project. Some graves which are recorded as SJAB have been identified as Southampton Volunteer Ambulance Corps and I've written to the CWGC to see if the commemmoration record can be corrected. Full details here

A few matters remain unsolved:

PTE WILLIAMS


Recorded as initial W on the headstone and T on the casualty record, which also cites his number as 786 which clearly belongs to Pte William Ion of Kendal Division who also died on 13 July 1900.




Does anyone have access to the original sources: SAFF & 'In Memorium' etc to check there has not been a transcription error. I cant find any reports of a Pte Williams dying on 13 July 1900 other than the ancestry transcription and the Findagrave record. None of the SJAB men on the medal roll correlate with these details either.

Pte T BAKER. Does not correlate with the 'BAKERs' on the SJAB Medal roll and have been unable to find anything other than the detail on the SA memorial to help identify him.

Geo S SAUNDERS is commemotated on a memorial in Exeter Cathedral but I can find no record of him being in SA and he is not on the SJAB SA medal roll.

Can anyone discover any information to resolve these identification and connection to SJAB problems?