Blunt | J W | | | 3rd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Leicestershire Regiment |
Blunt | O B | | Lieutenant | Source: Nominal roll in WO127 | Rhodesia Regiment |
Blunt | O D | | Lieutenant | Wounded. Gaberones, 12 February 1900
Plumer's Force
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | Connaught Rangers |
Blunt | Osmond Donald | | Captain | Was born November 17, 1870, and entered the Connaught Rangers in 1898, exchanging to the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1900. He served in the Dongola Expedition in 1896 (despatches, medal, 4th Class Medjidie, and Egyptian medal with two clasps) the Expedition against the Mpezeni, British Central Africa, in 1898 (medal with clasp), and the Boer War in 1899-1900 as special service officer, and serving with the Rhodesian Protectorate Regiment (QSA with three clasps). | Protectorate Regiment |
Blunt | R B | | Captain | 2nd Btn. Wounded at Venter's Spruit. 20 Jan 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 83 line 28 | Lancashire Fusiliers |
Blunt | R B | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Lancashire Fusiliers |
Blunt | R B | | Captain | MID LG: 10 September 1901, page: 5941. Source: Field Marshal Roberts. 4 September 1901. Re: General mentions
This page contains all the London Gazette pages for the Boer War | Lancashire Fusiliers |
Blunt | R B | | Brevet Major | Demise: Died of wounds 20 Feb 1902
Place: Vryheid Near Langelegen
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Lancashire Fusiliers |
Blunt | Reginald Arthur | | Captain | Source: QSA Medal Rolls | 30th Company, 9th Btn, IY |
Blunt | Richard Henry Thomas | 2611 | Sergeant | Source: OZ-Boer database | New South Wales, 3rd Contingent NSW Imperial Bushm |
Blunt | Robert Bruce | | Brevet Major | He died February 20th, 1902, of wounds received the day previously at Llangelegen, near Vryheid. The eldest son of George H Blunt of Leicester, he was born May 17th, 1873, and educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, and afterwards at Rugby. He entered the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1892, was promoted Lieutenant January 1894, Captain September 1899, and brevet Major November 1900. He served in the campaign in the Soudan under Lord (then Sir Herbert) Kitchener, in 1898, as adjutant of the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, was present at the battle of Khartoum, receiving the British medal, and the Khedive's medal with clasp. He also took part in the occupation of Crete in 1898. In the South African War Major Blunt served with the 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, with the Ladysmith Relief Force, and was present at Spion Kop and the engagement of Venters Spruit (severely wounded). He was appointed Staff Officer for Intelligence from October 1900, and at the time of his death was Staff Officer, Dundee Sub district. He was mentioned in despatches, LG, September 10th, 1901, for his services, and was promoted to a brevet Majority. Major Blunt was adjutant of his battalion from March 1896, to March 1900. He was buried at Dundee.
Source: Donner | Lancashire Fusiliers |
Blunt | Robert Bruce | | Captain | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA roll | Lancashire Fusiliers |
Blunt | Robert Henry Theodore | 43 | Private | Source: OZ-Boer database | Queensland, 2nd Mounted Infantry Contingent |
Blunt | S | 3799 | Private | QSA (6).
Source: QSA medal rolls | 1st (Royal) Dragoons |
Blunt | V | | | 1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Suffolk Regiment |
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