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Surname

Forename

Rank

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Unit

Agnew

Private

CGHGSM (1) Bechuanaland. CPD2. Special Police
Source: Roll of the CGHGSM

Cape Police

Agnew

2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls

Northumberland Fusiliers

Agnew

Able Seaman

Frontier Wars. SAGS (0)

HMS Active

Agnew

Trooper

BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls

Matabeleland Relief Force

Agnew

Graham

548

Attested: Jan 1898. Source: CMP1

Cape Police

Agnew

H M

6345

Lance Sergeant

Slightly wounded 25 May 00 Senekal. Killed in action 25 Dec 01 Tweefontein
Source: DCM recipients

11th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry

Agnew

H M

Lieutenant

Demise: Killed in action 25 Dec 1901
Place: Groenkop
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt

34th Company, 11th Btn, IY

Agnew

H M

6845

Lance Sergeant

MID LG: 10 September 1901, page: 5965. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 4 September 1901. Re: General mentions
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Imperial Yeomanry

Agnew

Herman Maitland

Lieutenant

He was killed in action at Tweefontein in De Wet's attack on Christmas morning, 1901. He was the fourth son of T F A Agnew, Bank of England, Liverpool, was twenty five years of age, and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, where he rowed in the school four. Lieutenant Agnew joined as a trooper early in 1900, and served throughout the war. He had been wounded, and for his services was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, being appointed Lieutenant in March 1901. He was buried at Tweefontein and his name was inscribed on an obelisk which has been erected there in memory of all who fell in this action.
Source: Donner

Imperial Yeomanry

Agnew

Herman Maitland

Lieutenant

Source: QSA Medal Rolls

34th Company, 11th Btn, IY

Agnew

Tpr

Slightly wounded at Colenso. 15 Dec 1899.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 226 line 23

Natal Carbineers

Agnew

Seaman