In Memory Of

MAPHAM, GEORGE WILLIAM

Service Details
Age:
 34
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 329
Rank:
 Burgher
Unit:
 Geyser's Commando
Regiment:
 Mounted Commandos, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
 1914-12-05
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, received in a fight with rebels west of Warmbaths
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 British Garden of Remembrance.
Cemetery:
 POLOKWANE (OR PIETERSBURG) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Limpopo Province
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Son of William Francis and Elizabeth Annie (nee Carney) Mapham, of Fair View, Hulton Street, Bedford. Husband of Emma Florence Mary (born Battiss) Mapham. Served as a Trooper with Nesbitt's Horse in the ABW 1899 ? 1902. A farmer. Served with Geyser's Commando in the Afrikaner Rebellion 1914. His father also served with Nesbitt's Horse in the ABW. Commemorated on the Bedford, Eastern Cape and Bedford Presbyterian Church WWI Memorials. His brother Walter Leslie Mapham also died in service