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In St. Nicholas's Church, Warwickshire.



TROOPER ARCHIBALD H. FORD , of the 14th King's Hussars, died of enteric fever at Groolaagte, August 4, 1900. He was the second son of Ex-P.C. Ford, of Austrey, joined the 14th Hussars, in July, 1899, and went out to the Transvaal with a draft of his regiment in June last.
(Tamworth Herald, Saturday 18th August 1900)

Here is Archibald Ford's grave marker. Pic courtesy of the eGGSA library.

Note the different date on the marker!!





Regards
Adrian

Hello Adrian,
WO100/117 gives his number as 4134 and shows him as deceased on the 9th of August 1900.
Regards Frank

This is excellent research for the site. Bringing together items from two continents and keeping alive the memory of these soldiers in the digital era.

Hello Frank,

The more I look at this the more I think I have perhaps the wrong Ford. However, I wonder if perhaps they could be related?? same surname and same Regiment?

I will dig a bit deeper with this one.

Regards
Adrian

Hello Adrian,
Yes, that would be 3072 Private H R Ford, still nice to see though!
Kind regards Frank

capepolice wrote: Hello Frank,

The more I look at this the more I think I have perhaps the wrong Ford. However, I wonder if perhaps they could be related?? same surname and same Regiment?

I will dig a bit deeper with this one.

Regards
Adrian