The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

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Not listed on UKNIWM

Located in Ayr Auld Kirk at OS Map Ref NS 339 219

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject:

From: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/AYR/Military/ayryeo.html

The volunteers from the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire Yeomanries served in the campaign as the 17th Company of the 6th (Scottish) Battalion of Imperial Yeomanry

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:20 pm Post subject:

One of the men listed in the second contingent is Thomas Grieve. He came from West Buccleuch, Hawick and is listed on the Hawick Boer War Memorial

From: http://www.cults.freeserve.co.uk/ancestry/glenfam/pafg15.htm#3020

Thomas GRIEVE was born on 14 Mar 1873 in Innerleithen, Peeble (sic). He died* 7 Jan 1902 in Boomfontein, South Africa, while serving with the Imperial Yeomanry. Thomas was counted in a census in 1881 in Innerleithen, Peebles. He was counted in a census in 1891 in Ettrick, Selkirk

*The date and place of death is taken from his parents gravestone and doesn't match the date on this memorial which says 17th January

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:34 pm Post subject:

In Memory of

The members of the

17th Company Imperial Yeomanry
(Ayrshire)

Who died on active service in South Africa
During the Boer War 1899-1902

First Contingent

James Barclay
Died Kroonstad 27th Sept. 1900

Macauley Ashworth Kerans
Died Kroonstad 29th Dec. 1900

Alexander Buchan
Died Ladybrand 9th April 1901

Second Contingent

Neil Robertson Crawford
Died Bloemfontein 5th June 1901

Walter Bell
Drowned Aliwal North 6th Sept 1901

Thomas Grieve
Died Bloemfontein 17th Jany 1902

Douglas James Meiklejohn
Died Winburg 19th March 1902

Adam Brown · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:44 pm Post subject:

From what I can see on Peerage.com, Macaulay Kerans had a brother Percy Kerans who also died in Kroonstad in 1900 the Boer War.

According to the website they were the sons of Percy Ashworth Kerans and a Mrs Rivers.

On another site it gives more detail of the brother: http://www.treanor.co.uk/ancestry/files/np16.htm

He was a Lieutenant in Robert's Horse when he died of enteric fever at Kroonstad on 8 June, 1900 at the age of 22 or 23

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