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DuncanAlfred29125PrivateSource: Nominal roll in WO127Rand Rifles
DuncanAlfred40991TrooperNo known Company. Served in 29th Btn IY
Source: QSA Medal Rolls
Imperial Yeomanry
DuncanAlfredTrooperJoined 29 Dec 00
Source: Nominal roll in WO127
Scottish Horse
DuncanAlfred Trooper1st Battalion
Source: QSA Medal Rolls
Scottish Horse
DuncanAndrew27Occupation: Clerk. Next of kin: Father. Address: Aberdeenshire Scotland.
Source: Attestation paper in WO126
Town Guard and District Mounted Troops
DuncanAndrew25521PrivateSource: QSA Medal Rolls20th Company, 6th Btn, IY
DuncanAndrew Henry FarrellTrooperBSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0). Born in the Parish of St Paul's, Port Adelaide, South Australia, on 31 May 1855, and served in the Royal Navy from 1868 to 1883 during which time, as a Lieutenant in HMS Boadicea, he was with the Naval Brigade in Transvaal from 6 January, 1881, to 18 April, 1881. He qualified at the University of the Cape of Good Hope as a land surveyor in 1884, and was Surveyor General in British Bechuanaland from 1886 to 1891. Among others he surveyed and compiled plans of the townships Ekowa (1885-86) and Elliot (1885-1904) in the Transkei, and Vryburg (1897) in North West. In September 1894 he was appointed the first Surveyor General of Rhodesia and was made responsible for surveys, the disposal of land and also a number of departments including the Post Office, Stores and Transport, Public Works, and Woods and Forests. He was Chief Magistrate in Bulawayo in 1893 and was a great personal friend of Dr. L. S. Jameson. He became a member of the Executive Council in 1894 and was gazetted Acting Administrator in the course of the same year. Shortly after the outbreak of the Matabele rebellion in 1896 Duncan handed over his duties to Earl Grey, but not before he had organised the defence of Bulawayo, at that time seriously short of men, arms and munitions, owing to the Jameson Raid. He was a member of the Staff of the Bulawayo Field Force and accompanied Captain Hon. C. White's column as far as Charter. From there, and with only one companion who became seriously ill on the journey, Duncan rode to Fort Salisbury through the enemy lines, travelling by night, part of the way by foot, as he was obliged to support the sick man on his horse. The latter repeatedly urged Duncan to leave him and save himself, but in spite of every difficulty, he succeeded in bringing him safely into Salisbury. The next day news came in that men in Abercorn were in grave danger. The district was some 70 miles distant in the worst part of the enemy's country. Duncan the same evening organised a patrol to relieve the white residents at Abercorn. In an incredibly short space of time, accompanied by 40 of the Natal Troop, and 25 volunteers from the Salisbury Field Force, he left the laager en route for Abercorn, where in due course he and his contingent safely arrived. Altogether about 17 people had sought refuge at Abercorn where they had been besieged for 23 days, repeatedly attacked by overwhelming numbers of rebellious natives, and as a result two men were killed and five were wounded. Duncan was presented with a magnificent illuminated scroll, now in The National Army Museum at Chelsea, by members of the Salisbury Field Force who accompanied him to Abercorn, bearing both their signatures and also those of some of the rescued men. The testimonial sums up with the following sentence: When this unfortunate rebellion is at an end and we can calmly review its history, your brave exploit will stand out as a conspicuous event, destined to remain one of the most cherished memories of the people of Rhodesia. Duncan volunteered for service, on the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, and served with the Royal Engineers and the Intelligence Department. Shortly after the British assumed control of the Orange Free State, Duncan supervised the compilation of the Orange River Colony Degree Sheet Series of maps, published in 1901. The 25 maps were based on the farm diagrams available in the office of the surveyor-general of the territory. They were revised after 1902 by the surveyor-general's staff and remained in use for many years. In 1906 Duncan lodged a complaint against the surveyor-general of the Orange River Colony. That same year he was listed as a government land surveyor admitted to practise in the Transvaal Colony and was associated with the Swaziland Corporation. During 1906 he surveyed a chain of triangles in Swaziland. His survey was later incorporated in the primary triangulation along the northern border of Swaziland, carried out by the Trigonometrical Survey of the Union of South Africa between 1920 and 1936. In 1928 he received a Crown grant of a farm at Hartebeestfontein, Pretoria. He died at Pretoria on 22nd September, 1931, at the age of 77 years. BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (A. H. F. Duncan. Staff. B. F. F.). DNW December 1991 1991 £600. DNW September 2015 £2,200.
Source: BSACM rolls
Bulawayo Field Force
DuncanAndrew Linklater22423TrooperSource: Nominal roll in WO127Commander-in-Chief's Bodyguard
DuncanArchibald32Occupation: Porter. Next of kin: Wife. Address: Salt River.
Source: Attestation paper in WO126
Town Guard and District Mounted Troops
DuncanB TrooperSource: Nominal roll in WO127Colonial Scouts
DuncanBernardCaptainServed 06 Jan 01 to 05 Mar 01.
Source: Nominal roll in WO127
Steinaecker's Horse
DuncanC1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
(Queen's Own) Cameron Highlanders
DuncanC1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
Gordon Highlanders
DuncanC1st Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls
(King's) Liverpool Regiment
DuncanC 3878Private2nd Btn. Wounded at Natal. 5 Feb 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 94 line 25
(Cameronians) Scottish Rifles
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