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South Wales Borderers 1891

The transcribed muster rolls for the 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers, taken at Aldershot on 1 April 1891 reveals for the first time which company a soldier served with, within the battalion.

Not only does this provide a list of the men at Aldershot, but also it allows those men who were elsewhere, be it in hospital, or on furlough with family, to be identified and pinpointed too. Where the transcribed name is not clear on the census, a pointer has been provided on how to find the page on which they appear, by providing the distinctive name of a colleague on the same sheet.

Some of these men will have surviving service records. In other instances, supplemental data has been sourced, and transcribed for the first time. The source of the supplemental data is the description book, which recorded key information of use to the genealogist, such as trade at enlistment, declared age, place of birth, date of enlistment and place of enlistment.

As a consequence of this compilation, of muster rolls enhanced with biographical details, it is arguably one of the most comprehensive record sets that pertain to a unit of the British Army that appears on the 1891 census.

Some of these men were veterans of the Burma Wars and Zulu Wars. Others would go on to serve in the Boer War and First World War.