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| Boer War: Volunteers and Regulars - Private Albert Crossland (killed) of 68 Attercliffe Common, was a reservist of the York and Lancaster Regiment | |
| Sheffield | |
| 1900-1919 | |
Crossland had left the ranks three years when recalled, and was working as a furnace man at the Hallamshire Steel Works, Neepsend. Like the majority of his regiment's reserves he sailed in the Majestic from Liverpool, and re-embarked at Durban on New Year's Day. He was in Warren's command, and fought in the desperate battle of Spion Kop, where he was mortally wounded in the head - so wrote a comrade from Pond Street. He succumbed to his injuries the same day. He was 29 years of age and unmarried. Image from Sheffield at the Front (page 77) (Printed and Published by The Sheffield Independent Press Limited). (Sheffield Local Studies Library: 968.2 SF) |
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