Davids , Joseph (J)

Dedicated to Alfred D Alborough born March 1872 and died at Intombi hospital outside Ladysmith on 14th March 1900 from wounds received during the Boer war. Son of William Alborough b.15th Dec 1835 Norfolk d.13th April 1892 and buried at Boston Natal. Mother was Anne Elizabeth Sleightholme b.1846 Sleights York d.19th August 1877. William and Anne met in Natal and married on the 9th June 1863. They had 6 children, Albert Parker,John William,Henry,Alfred D,Walter and Charles. Note William Alborough arrived in South Africa on the 20th May 1855 with his father William Alborough senior and a sister Jane. Jane married a Robert Bloy and the descendants of this family still live in Natal Derek Austin

Intombi Hospital, Ladysmith 14 March 1900. From the diary of HE Fernandez Medical Officer at the above hospital. To tell you the truth, this place with all its horrors and misery and worry is beginning to get on my nerves. Everyone of our Staff of Doctors has gone except Buntine, who still keeps on . Ladysmith itself (4 and a half miles away) In my big marquee about the same time I lost a man named Alborough quite unexpectedly whose brother was sent away from here a few days ago with the most hopeful account of the patients condition.