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Originally Posted by GriffMJ
If he is 29 at Cencus time and a Bombadier.... then that makes the year 1884, the First Boer War was 1880-1  Have you still got his medal? |
I wish ! No I haven't. I have my great grand dads Mon's star from WW1 etc..
They are not worth much monetarily but are priceless in historical terms to me ..
This is interesting now with old man heffernon, I can see where he was barracked by the different birth places of his 10 children.. And I can put a date on when he was at each place by their ages.. this is fascinating stuff !!