TOPIC:

Name: H W Carson
Service Date: 1899-1902
Service Place: South Africa
Campaign or Service: South Africa - Second Boer War
Regiment or Unit Name: 60th Company 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry
Regimental Number: 30493

Here are all the Carson's that I have in a list of Imp. Yeo........

Carson, H.W. 30493, Private 60th Coy., 17th Bn. I.Y.
Carson, J. 34470, Private 99th Coy., 8th Bn. I.Y.
Carson, John 37821, Private 134th Coy., 29th Bn. I.Y.
Carson, John 38435, Private Imperial Yeomanry
Carson, John 37599, Trooper 1st Scottish Horse
Carson, Joseph 41007, Private 176th Coy., 29th Bn. I.Y.
Carson, Richard 31154, Trooper 24th Coy., 8th Bn. I.Y.
Carson, William 9378, Private 46th Coy., 13th Bn. I.Y.
Carson, William 43240, Trooper* 35th Bn. I.Y.

Mike

Thank you all for your help. As I said it was the expert at the Who Do You Think You Are show about 10 years ago that said the man was in the 17th Lancers. The military expert from the magazine of the same name did not dispute it when I sent a query to him. John Carson who I thought it was I have since found out joined the South Lancashire regiment in 1894. He served at home and then India. He went to South Africa for 7 months in 1902.
He was discharged in 1906. His Younger brother Francis joined the Lancashire Artillery in 1900 but was struck off in the May for not showing up. During the first world war he joined the Manchester Regiment. The last brother Thomas born 1888 joined the Kings Liverpool Regiment in 1907 but transferred to the Royal Navy in the July of that year. So it seems the photo cannot be any of the brothers unless someone out there can tell me different.
I am totally confused about regiments and who it can be.