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Hello Meurig,
I think it is very important to understand that the government had not stated that the dead could not be brought home during the Boer War as they were to do later during the Great War, so I feel it just came down to logistics and for course money.
In Captain Murray's case, he had expressed the wish, that if the worst happened, he was to be buried at home in the family burial place at Blackbarony, it is quiet and rather beautiful with a wooded pheasant covert.
Niether Captain Murray or his own family have any association with Scone Palace.
Regards Frank

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Frank Kelley wrote: Hello Meurig,
Yes they will have memorials, you are taking me back some twenty years or so when I was in my teens and used to spend a lot of my spare time at Kew, I have really not bothered to look at this since, it all rather depended on money and connections!

A most memorable gentleman would be Captain Edward Murray of the Cameron's, though, he was serving as adjutant of the Lovats Scouts when he was killed.

Kind regards Frank

Thanks Frank - just found a reference to him in the SAMHS journal article by Steve Watt - he was re-interred at the family seat of Scone Palace in Scotland. His gravestone in South Africa was relocated to Aliwal North, and I guess is still there today - just confuse everybody!

Need to read through In Memoriam to find more of these chaps.

ref: rapidttp.co.za/milhist/vol142sw.html

Regards
Meurig

Had the same problem looking up my grandfather last week. There were three H Dyson's in different battteries of the RHA.

Hi

In Steve Watt's book, he is shown as DODE at Pietermaritzburg, Fort Napier, his name is on a metal cross at the site, Aged 22, COE. Hope this helps.

Doug.