4931 Private A Shinn, 2nd Battalion The Norfolk Regiment. The battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing on the Assaye on 4 Jan 1900, and arrived at the Cape on the 23 Jan 1900. Along with the 2nd Lincolnshire, 1st King's Own Scottish Borderers, and 2nd Hampshire, they formed the 14th Brigade under Brigadier General Chermside. They took part in the advance from Modder River to Bloemfontein. They fought at the battle of Karee Siding on 29 Mar 1900 during the advance to Johannesburg. Brandfort was occupied on 3 May 1900, Smalldeel on the 6 May 1900, Kroonstad on the 12 May 1900 and Pretoria on 5 Jun 1900. During the later stages of the war the battalion was employed mainly in the Central Transvaal, being for a considerable time the garrison of Rustenburg. Private Shinn died of disease at Germiston on 15 Jan 1901. He is also commemorated on the Norwich Boer War memorial in the Agricultural Hall Plain, Norwich, Norfolk, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/174779/) and on the 2nd Battalion The Norfolk Regiment Boer War memorial in Norwich Cathedral, The Close, Norwich, Norfolk, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/174974/).
4931 Private A Shinn, 2nd Battalion The Norfolk Regiment. The battalion deployed to South Africa for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing on the Assaye on 4 Jan 1900, and arrived at the Cape on the 23 Jan 1900. Along with the 2nd Lincolnshire, 1st King's Own Scottish Borderers, and 2nd Hampshire, they formed the 14th Brigade under Brigadier General Chermside. They took part in the advance from Modder River to Bloemfontein. They fought at the battle of Karee Siding on 29 Mar 1900 during the advance to Johannesburg. Brandfort was occupied on 3 May 1900, Smalldeel on the 6 May 1900, Kroonstad on the 12 May 1900 and Pretoria on 5 Jun 1900. During the later stages of the war the battalion was employed mainly in the Central Transvaal, being for a considerable time the garrison of Rustenburg. Private Shinn died of disease at Germiston on 15 Jan 1901. He is also commemorated on the Norwich Boer War memorial in the Agricultural Hall Plain, Norwich, Norfolk, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/174779/) and on the 2nd Battalion The Norfolk Regiment Boer War memorial in Norwich Cathedral, The Close, Norwich, Norfolk, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/174974/).
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