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He seems to have had plenty of time to write numerous letters to people at home and I find them fascinating. Someone should make a film of all his escapades and his observations of the war. So many horses dying makes me think of WWI but those horses were supplied by the government and possibly killed by enemy action. These horses were dying of heat and exhaustion as well.
It sounds as though he was brought up in the Midlands and spent time working in a family firm in Llandudno before going off to south Africa.

Thank you so much for going to such trouble.

So sorry I forgot to reply to your kind offer of photos. I don't think I need them thanks but a photo of Clement if there is one would be good. Thanks again.

Hywel - cannot help on photo of Clement - might be worth messaging creator of the "Lempriere Family Tree" publicly available on Ancestry. She is directly descended from a Lempriere but appears she is no closer than a second cousin a few times removed. Her FT shows Clement's father, grandfather & great granfather bearing the Lempriere name were all Sussex born but I get the impression the ancient roots of the Lemprieres' lies in Jersey hence its Frenchness. Her FT shows Clement was both born & raised in Birmingham and he never married.

There was another Clement Lempriere who suffered a gruesome death - this was widely circulated in the newspapers of 1892:



Amazing what can be found out over a century later especially when an unusual name is involved.

Over and out, David.

Not a problem David and thanks for replying. It was just a remote chance and not important. I did Google his name when I discovered him and you are correct it is a Channel Islands name and he has a famous forebear with the same initials who was an artist.
Now you have all solved my riddle I'd just like to say thanks a lot again. He must have left the Midlands after the 1891 Census at some point and come to Llandudno to work in the family shop which then seems to have sold everything off in 1900 and he went to the 2nd Boer War. He was back in the Midlands for the 1901 Census having been discharged earlier according to his Attestation papers. He then seems to have given up on bicycles and become an upholsterer and lived a long life.

Hywel. this won't satisfy your want of a photo but, I append hereto a group photo of the Natal Police, taken in 1911, wherein one Harry Leonard Lempriere appears. He could possibly be a branch of the family in which you are interested.

A death notice in the Pietermaritzburg Archives tells us that HL passed away, unmarried, at "Homewood, Garland Road, Leatherhead, Surrey on 26 June 1922. His father was a Harry Reid Lempriere. He had been born in Epsom, Surrey and was 53 at the time of his death.



Regards

Rory

Thanks for this Rory. I was just interested in what they would have worn having seen pics. of Boers in Conwy archive. Also a young Winston Churchill. David told me how to get the Attestation papers and Clement named H as his next of kin. So, I think he was his brother. I think someone mentioned that they were middle class the men who volunteered and this group certainly looks "well put on".