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Subject: Alfred Davis what unit was he with?? Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:48 pm
Does anyone know what unit Alfred Davis was with during the Zulu War??
I think it could be NMP or NC
Cheers DB14
90th
Posts : 10089 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 64 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Alfred Davis Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:03 pm
Hi DB14. Didnt find a ' Alfred Davis ' in either of the NC or NMP . Found a Captain A.E. Davis in the 2nd Btn 2nd Regt . cheers 90th .
1879graves
Posts : 3038 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
Subject: Re: Alfred Davis what unit was he with?? Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:09 pm
Could this be your man?
Captain A.E. Davis, Natal Native Contingent. (From Abingdon School Register 1563-1947) DAVIS, Arthur (1850-1928). Son of Gabriel Davis (1807-1889), merchant, East St Helen Street, Abingdon. AS 1861-? To South Africa. South African Frontier Mounted Police. Served, Morosi rebellion (1877-78), Cape Colony. Served, Zulu war (1879). Free State Civil Service, Customs. Served, Boer War. Guide and intelligence officer (1899). Served, First World War, aged sixty. Dyed his hair and assumed military age of forty. Served in General Botha’s invasion, German South West Africa (1914). Brother of DDD, OD, RD, WD, GD and LD. Nephews of headmaster Dr W A Strange and cousins of the Swann’s.
90th
Posts : 10089 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 64 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Alfred Davis Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:17 pm
Hi Graves1879. I'm Fairly certain the Morosi affair was in 1879 , not 77-78 ( Gaikas , Galekas and possibly the first attack on Sekukuni ) . Happy to be corrected . cheers 90th.
1879graves
Posts : 3038 Join date : 2009-03-03 Location : Devon
Subject: Re: Alfred Davis what unit was he with?? Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:21 pm
Hi 90th
You are correct
I posted what was in the Abingdon School Register 1563-1947 verbatim
90th
Posts : 10089 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 64 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Alfred Davis Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:24 pm
Hi Graves1879 . I thought you must have !. I know you wouldnt have printed that info yourself . :lol!: :lol!: . cheers 90th. .
Drummer Boy 14
Posts : 1998 Join date : 2011-08-01 Age : 23
Subject: Re: Alfred Davis what unit was he with?? Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:18 pm
I found refrence to him because witnessed Captain Shepstone take iteams from Durnford body.
I think the story goes,
He borrowed a sick troopers uniform to vist Isandlwana in May and found his brothers body lying close to Durnfords.
I think he may have been conacted to the Natal Witness papers
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