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Lieut. H. M. Southey, killed in action at Tiger's Kloof, South 

 Africa, November 23rd, aged 28. Son of Captain A. H. Southey, of 

 Eastleigh Court, Bishopstrow. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst. 

 Entered Scots Guards, 1892. 

 Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, December 6th* 1900. 



Captain William Atkins, Wiltshire Kegiment, killed in action 

 at Nooitgedacht, South Africa, Dec. 13th, 1900, aged 39. Served in the 

 ranks for six years before receiving commission in 1888 in the Royal 

 Irish Rifles. Became Captain in the Wiltshire Eegiment in 1896. 

 Before joining the army he had held a commission as Lieutenant in an 

 Irish Militia Regiment. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, Dec. 20th, 1900. 



Major Herbert Thomas de Carteret Hofobs, of the 



West Yorkshire Regiment, killed in action at Honingspruit, South Africa, 

 June 23rd, 1900, aged 43. He entered the 62nd Regiment in 1875 ; Captain, 

 1882; and from 1893—1898 he was Adjutant of the 2nd Volunteer 

 Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment. In 1895 he became Major and 

 was transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment. He was very well 

 known and greatly respected and liked in the Chippenham and Devizes 

 neighbourhoods, and the memorial service held in the Parish Church, 

 Chippenham, on his death, was largely attended. He was taken prisoner 

 early in the war, at the battle of Beacon Hill, having stayed behind to 

 take care of a wounded man, spent seven months in captivity at Pretoria, 

 was released when the place was occupied by Lord Roberts, and soon 

 afterwards met his death in the fighting with De Wet. 



Obit notices, Devizes Gazette, June 28th and July 12th, 1900. 



Second Lieut. William Scott Luce, of the 82nd Battery, 



Royal Artillery, killed in action at Diamond Hill, South Africa, June 

 12th, 1900. Youngest son of Mr. W. H. Luce, of Malmesbury. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, June 28th. Portrait in Daily Graphic, 

 June 25th, 1900. 



Lieilt. A. J. Grant HHeek, of the 6th Dragoons, died of wounds, 

 June 7th, 1900, at Pretoria. Eldest son of Mr. A. Grant Meek, of 

 Hillworth, Devizes. He joined the army in 1899. 



Major FeliX Thomas J Ones, late of the Buffs, died at Chippenham, 

 April 17th, 1900, aged 61. Second son of Thomas Jones, of Hinton 

 Charterhouse, Som. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Served with 

 the Buffs in the West Indies, and at the taking of the Taku Forts, from 

 1857 to 1876, when he retired and came to live at Chippenham, and was 

 for many years well known in the Beaufort Hunt. Buried at Hinton 

 Charterhouse. 



Obit, notice, Devizes Gazette, April 19th, 1900. 



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