| Notes: | MFP. Died. Not listed in Boer War Casualty List. He is named on the Coombe Hill Memorial, Wendover, Buckinghamshire. He was born at Aylesbury, enlisted 22/4/92, occupation Gardener, Died 3/6/02 in Dundee, South Africa, 25/9/1902 he left his sister Mary a the sum of £31/14/8. Army Register of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929.
James Roads.
Extract from the South Bucks Standard, 12/12/1902. List of Officers and Men from Buckingham who fell in the late war in South Africa: Lance Corporal, Roads, James, Military Foot Police.
Extract from the Aylesbury News 14 June 1903 - DEATHS.
Roads:- on the 3rd inst, at Dundee, South Africa, Lance Corporal Roads, of the Military Foot Police, son of Mr James Roads, of Bicester Road, Aylesbury.
Corps of Military Police - At St George's Garrison Church, Aldershot, on Sunday, a memorial was unveiled by Major General H M Lawson, CB and dedicated by the Chaplain-General. The memorial consists of a stained glass window depicting Christ carrying the cross, and is inscribed: To the glory of God and in memory of Lance Corporal's Winn, Wetherly, and Spicer, Military Mounted Police and Carey, Large Roads and Burton, Military Foot Police, who lost their lives in the South African War, 1899-1902, this memorial was erected by their comrades of the corps past and present.
Memorial stone with this monument: In memory of the British Soldiers who laid down their lives during the 1899-1902 war who are buried here. |
