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His name was John Thomas Brusby and his regiment number was 3596.

Thanks again!

Here is what is listed in FMP.......

First name(s) J
Last name Brusby
Service number 3596
Rank Private
Regiment 2 Battalion The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Event detail Prisoner - Released on 13/12/1900 at Nooitgedacht
Event unit 2 Battalion The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Event source South African Field Force. JB Hayward & Sons
Country Great Britain



Mike

Wow, that is so interesting- especially that it looks like he was a prisoner at one point.

What is FMP?

Please can I ask one more thing? My Grandma said that her father never spoke about his time in the war except for when he was very elderly and ill, where he once told her he had been at Mafeking. I question this as I thought he would have had a battle clasp for this, rather than a State clasp for Cape Colony. Am I right to question this?

Thanks once again!

Fae_austin wrote: Wow, that is so interesting- especially that it looks like he was a prisoner at one point.

What is FMP?

Please can I ask one more thing? My Grandma said that her father never spoke about his time in the war except for when he was very elderly and ill, where he once told her he had been at Mafeking. I question this as I thought he would have had a battle clasp for this, rather than a State clasp for Cape Colony. Am I right to question this?

Thanks once again!

F.M.P. is Find My Past and is an online genealogical site......

I do not think that he was at Mafeking at least not during the fighting or during the time period for award of a bar to his QSA.....

The state clasp that covers the operations around the Mafeking area would have been the Rhodesia clasp not Cape Colony......

Mike

Thank you very much for all of your responses. I will feedback to my Grandma. She is now 92 and will be eager to hear.