Identity
Person No.
24637
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Unknown
Last Name
First Name
Edward Tristram Smyth
Initials
E T S
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
23
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
DOW 2,732
Died of wounds
Military Service
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Son of Arthur George and Caroline Guiseppa Syfret, of Silwood, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa. On Rondebosch War Memorial in St. Paul's Anglican Churchyard
Research notes
Colyn Brookes, Mibisa: Volume One – Western Cape (Lulu, 2013, ISBN 9781447682523): Road, Memorial.
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External References
Stories 2
Lewis George Orbell was my 3rd Cousin 3 Removed. He was born on 7th April 1867 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and joined the 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment on 1st April 1881 wrongly giving his age as 14 when he was only 13. Later that year he went to India with the Battalion. He progressed through the ranks of the band until he was appointed Sergeant Drummer (Drum Major) which rank he held when he went to South Africa. He died on 7th July 1901 aged 34 of phthsis, a type of consumption. He was unmarried. He was awarded the Queens South Africa Medal with clasps for South Africa 1901, Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony. His name appears on the Regimental War Memorial in Bury St Edmunds and also on the memorial at Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge.
Sgt Drummer (Drum Major) Lewis George Orbell b.07.04.1867 Bury St Edmunds. Enlisted in 2nd Suffolks in Jersey 1881 as a Boy Soldier. Became Drum Major and went to South Africa with the battalion. Died there of phthsis, a form of consumption, 07.07.1901. Entitled to Queens SA Medal 1901 with clasps Orange Free State, Transvaal & Cape Colony.
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