7689 Private M Bourne (not Brown as on the cemetery memorial), 1st Battalion the Royal Sussex Regiment. He deployed with his battalion to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War sailing from Malta, and arrived at the Cape about 20 Mar 1900. Along with the 1st Derbyshire, 1st Cameron Highlanders, and the City Imperial Volunteers, they formed the 21st Brigade, which was created after the occupation of Bloemfontein. They fought at the battle of Doornkop 29 May 1900 and at Diamond Hill. Pte Bourne drowned accidentally near Lindley, Orange Free State. He is also commemorated on the Royal Sussex Regiment Boer War memorial in Regency Square, Kings Road, Brighton, East Sussex, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/175387/).
7689 Private M Bourne (not Brown as on the cemetery memorial), 1st Battalion the Royal Sussex Regiment. He deployed with his battalion to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War sailing from Malta, and arrived at the Cape about 20 Mar 1900. Along with the 1st Derbyshire, 1st Cameron Highlanders, and the City Imperial Volunteers, they formed the 21st Brigade, which was created after the occupation of Bloemfontein. They fought at the battle of Doornkop 29 May 1900 and at Diamond Hill. Pte Bourne drowned accidentally near Lindley, Orange Free State. He is also commemorated on the Royal Sussex Regiment Boer War memorial in Regency Square, Kings Road, Brighton, East Sussex, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/175387/).
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