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Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (5) Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2863 Pte. A. Burge, Somerset: Lt. Infy.)

Albert Burge, a Farm Labourer from West Buckland, Somerset, was born around 1872. He attested into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry on 18 February 1889, and transferred into the 2nd Battalion on 9 August 1890. Granted good conduct pay of 2d per diem in 1896, he later served in South Africa during the Boer War, where he died of disease on 7 August 1900.