Same WW1 soldier but two graves ?
Posted: April 22nd, 2017, 10:45 pm
On our local nostalgic Facebook page in Cornwall today , a lady put on a photo of a local gravestone of a South African soldier that died in 1918 .
She wondered how he came to be buried down here in the South West .
Immediate thought is that he was connected to one of the many tin miners that migrated to Africa in the 19th Century.
However can't see anyone with that surname in any previous census in this vicinity .
Googling his name initially took me to Findagrave and this brought up two gravestones for the same chap and his mum's name and address in S.A .
Admittedly the graveyards are only about a mile apart but seems a bit odd .
Further google of his name and service number brings up that he left S.A. in October travelled all the way to UK and succumbed to presumably the Spanish flu for his trouble the following month .
Just wondering what could be the reason for the two gravestones ?
The bottom two names on this link give the details :
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.c ... all&GSob=n
She wondered how he came to be buried down here in the South West .
Immediate thought is that he was connected to one of the many tin miners that migrated to Africa in the 19th Century.
However can't see anyone with that surname in any previous census in this vicinity .
Googling his name initially took me to Findagrave and this brought up two gravestones for the same chap and his mum's name and address in S.A .
Admittedly the graveyards are only about a mile apart but seems a bit odd .
Further google of his name and service number brings up that he left S.A. in October travelled all the way to UK and succumbed to presumably the Spanish flu for his trouble the following month .
Just wondering what could be the reason for the two gravestones ?
The bottom two names on this link give the details :
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.c ... all&GSob=n