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Foot Soldiers Agent

Barrie,In what term as grease or talc was a foot soldiers best friend
 
cromwell said:
Barrie,In what term as grease or talc was a foot soldiers best friend
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Cromwell, its a request for information on a R.Sigs site. Here is a copy/paste of the request.

My in-laws are in the process of tracing their family tree. It appears that one of my father in law's great uncles was a ''Foot Soldier's Agent.'' This was around the time of the Boer War, or so we believe. Can any of you budding historians tell us exactly what this is - they believe he may have been a recruiter, I on the other hand think this may have been a trader who used to move from camp to camp selling his wares - a forerunnner of the NAAFI chuck wagon no less.
 
:angel: Here you are: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=551&992

Agent = Someone acting for someone else in an official, often financial, capacity

Agent for the sick and wounded at Gibraltar = Someone acting for someone else in an official, often financial, capacity/

From here: https://www.gendocs.demon.co.uk/trades.html
AGENT:
A person who acted on behalf of a company or another person.

From this it seems your agent may have worked on behalf of 'The Foot Soldiers', many of whom were illiterate, through no fault of there own.

Chris :angel:
 
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