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Sorry Lencops, forgot to say it was an interesting article.

Hi everyone, I have such good memories of the No 11 - we used to go from Quinton on the no.9 to Bearwood & catch the No.11 to Bourneville (I can still smell the chocolate - so I always knew we were nearly there) and then another little bus to Mulberry Rd. where my grandparents lived - seemed to...

I remember Wrensons very well - I used to take the grocery list in on my way to school and they delivered it. I remember the loose tea in sacks and currants and raisons also in blue sacks - the bacon slicing machine and the patting of butter into shapes and a tin of salmon only red of course...

Hi Theodore, I didn't think gt.uncle Fred. was in the battalion you were looking at - posted just in case as 'm not sure whats what!! And I've got as much info that I could find. Sheri

Hi I'm not sure if my great uncle was in the regiment you are looking for but I'll give you the info I have - He was Frederick James Bray enlisted in Worcester Hussars (Worcestershire yeomanry) - his regiment was the Household Cavalry which included the Yeomanry and the Imperial Camel Corps...

Great pictures Lyn, thank you so much - I am always interested to see the ones of the back to back's as my mother was brought up in one. I had no idea how they could have been in Watery Lane. Sheri

Hi Suzanne, Jayell, Terry, Thank you so much for your reply's. I took another look at Ancestry and I found 2 of them - Harold (mother Selina) - he lied about his age as he was only 16/17 and Terry he changed from the Medical Corps to the Worcesters in 1917. The other was John Bray and he...

I have tried everythin g to find my gt. uncles in WW1 - so Iam wondering if you knowledgable people can help please? Leonard Bray b 1883 (who I know was in the Boer War age 19/20) but would have only been about 34 in 1914. John Bray b. 1888 was in the Royal Fiel Artillery. Harold B. Bray b...

After a Saturday night at the Tower I used to catch the No 9 bus to Quinton right to the terminus then about a 15 minute walk - my mum insisted my dad came to meet me as the walk was either through the park or down Spies Lane which was quite creepy in those days - and he did carrying my flat...

Hi Paul, Thanks for your message - I doubt if my gt.uncle was caught up in anything like that as he was only 19/20 when he went to SA. The only things I have is a photo of him on a horse in uniform with a sword and a flag - he is wearing a little pill box hat - the photo has written on the back...

Hi Linda, thank you for putting this site on the forum - I'll need ab out a week to go through it all - so frustrating I can't find my gt.uncle. Sheri

dib44, thank you for putting that site on the forum - will be joining this one. Sheri

Hi Paul, thank you for the information - how interesting - do you know if my gt.uncle was involved and was killed in one of those raids - would his family have been informed? Or would they have been left not knowing what happened to him - he would only have been 19/20 so they were b ound to...

Hi dib44, Thanks for the message - yes I've been on that site I don't think he was killed - just can't find him after the Boer war. Sheri

Hi Paul, Thanks for the information that may narrow down as to where my gt.uncle was - but he was only 19/20 so would he be old enough for "special forces" - he was definatly calvalry - it's funny though can't find any trace of him after the B oer War neither marriage or death certificates...

Lencops, sorry not to have replied before - been away for a few days. NO medals that I know of and I couldn't find anything to say how long he was he was in the Army - just know he was a soldier in 1901 and in Zululand because of the letter. Thank you, Sheri

Hi everyone, back to the person who may be looking for someone in Bournemouth - in those days B ournemouth was not in Dorset but in Hampshire - has only been in Dorset in more recent years. Sheri

Thank you dib44 - that was an interesting site. Sheri

Hi dib44, Thank you for your reply. I got onto the site you recommended but wasn't able to open the site within it. Will try again. Can you tell me what the official name of Zululand was/is - that will make it a bit easier to find what I am looking for I hope. Thanks again Sheri

Good afternoon from sunny London, yesterday went to the Family Records centre at Kew - I was looking for information about my gt.uncle - Leonard Bray who I know served in the Boer War as I have a letter he wrote to my g.mother where he says they had come back from Zululand - they were very...