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https://commons.wikimedia.orgreported in Cambridge Independent Press that Private O Lowe was slightly wounded at Rensburg. This was a battle of the Second Boer War which took place on February 13th 1900. the month befroe he was reported wounded at Colesberg.
Martha Webb, laundress,
Frederick Metcalfe, 57, commercial traveller, born Cambridge
Alice M Metcalfe, 50, dressmaker own account, born York
Martha Webb, 67, widow, laundress at home, born Cherry Hinton
Lily Jane Stubbings, niece, 27, single, laundry help, born Cherry Hinton
George Henry Jarvis, 562 M.T. Coy, Army Service Corps (Mech). Jarvis, a painter and decorator, had applied in July 1918 for exemption from military service on the grounds of domestic hardship but was refused.
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