Boer War caualties


	Two Boer War Casualties

HENRY NORMAN HILL
AGED 24 YEARS
2^ND LIEUTENANT 4^TH BATTERY FIELD ARTILLERY
PREVIOUSLY A LIEUTENANT IN THE TYNEMOUTH VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY
KILLED IN ACTION AY KLEINSFONTEIN 24 OCTOBER 1901
AND MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES FOR VERY MARKED GALLANTRY
ERECTED BY HIS FORMER COMRADES
THE OFFICERS OF THE TYNEMOUTH VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY
(The Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery claims to be the oldest volunteer artillery unit of the British Army)

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND
IN MEMORY OF
TROOPER JOHN DIXON
AGED 27 YEARS OF NORTH SHIELDS
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION
AT RHENOSTERFONTEIN. SOUTH AFRICA
ON SEP^T. 5^TH. 1901.
WHILST SERVING IN THE 101^STCOMPANY IMPERIAL YEOMANRY