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Lieutenant Frederick Hugh Sheraton Roberts,

Kings Royal Rifle Corps and his friend

 

This Cairn photo must have been taken prior to the turn of the century – because his owner died in Dec 1899.

 

(Thank you to Graham Peers son in law for these photos)

A Cairn in approx 1900

with a Knighted General

 

General Sir Henry John Thoroton Hildyard GCB (5 July 1846 – 25 July 1916) was a British Army officer who saw active service in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882 and the Second Boer War. He was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, South Africa, from 1905 to 1908.

 

The youngest of the three sons of Thomas Blackborne Thoroton-Hildyard (1821–1888), a member of parliament, of Flintham Hall, Flintham, near Newark.