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Looking for any information .my great uncle john murphy rank private and no 6848 Fought in Cape colony ,orange free state,Transvaal ..that's on his medals that I have ..just wondering anybody else had a family member who served there ?

Hello, welcome here,
I dare say he would have found his time spent in South Africa to be very different than his prior life at home in County Carlow, he was nineteen, a member of the Militia, he was probably swept up in the fever that was very much in evidence across the whole of the country upon joining the old toughs in 1899!
A very typical lamb to be sure!
Again welcome here,
Regards Frank Kelley

Tullowlad wrote: Looking for any information .my great uncle john murphy rank private and no 6848 Fought in Cape colony ,orange free state,Transvaal ..that's on his medals that I have ..just wondering anybody else had a family member who served there ?

I am sure life travelling around the world was far more exciting than what was around Carlow !!thanks for the reply ..

Well, he certainly did travel, I suppose time spent in the Militia wetted his appetite too, but, he was certainly present for the whole of the guerrilla phase of the war and saw it out to the bitter end and just beyond, the immediate post war situation in the Transvaal was actually quite dangerous, certainly no place for the faint hearted.

I would add that the rank and file in this particular regiment were certainly not men who were idealists or subject to any sort of profound irony, they were very hard indeed and quite frankly, many enjoyed it.

Hi there Frank..is there any old records left .photos etc about the RDF from the Boer war ..I was told that trinity college have old archives including photos?i was lucky enough to get my great uncles war records still intact from national archives in the uk ..also on find my past ...luck they survived the blitz ..I have a few old photos of the great uncle and will post during the week .but they are from 1914& 1919 ..photo of British legion appeal and the survivors of ww1 in Tullow square circa 1919 ..but we had an old picture of Boer era ..but it's can't be found between the family's houses but we still looking ,hopefully it will be found ,or somebody else in the photo of about 8 soldiers might have another copy of the same photo ..some where in Ireland .if I seen the same photo I would recognise it ..regards jim