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Sir Henry Redvers Buller, VC GCB GCMG MP (1839 - 1908)
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, VC, GCB, GCMG (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the en...
Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, KCB KCVO 12th Earl of Dundonald (1852 - 1935)
"Dundoodle", "by his South Africa troops"
Winston Churchill MP (1874 - 1965)
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PCc DL FRS RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United ...
Mary Alice Thomson (1879 - 1955)
Phyllis Hope Thomson was fathered during the Siege of Ladysmith in 1899. Her unmarried mother Mary Alice Taylor was given a pass to leave Ladysmith by the Boers when she was 4 months' pregnant and she ...
Phyllis Hope Thomson (1900 - 1966)
"Phyllis Hope Thomson (adopted by her stepfather)"
Phyllis Hope Thomson was fathered during the Siege of Ladysmith in 1899. Her mother Mary Alice Taylor was given a pass to leave Ladysmith by the Boers when she was 4 months' pregnant and she went to Du...
Abraham Harris aka Sydney Fillis (1870 - 1915)
"Sydney Fillis"
Abraham Harris was born in London in 1870. Along with most of his brothers and sisters who also changed their surnae to Fillis, he emigrated to South Africa where he used the name Sydney Fillis. He ser...
