| Surname: | Farquhar |
| Initials: | R |
| Rank: | Corporal |
| Army Number: | .578 |
| Notes: | MFP. 8/3/87 He enlisted in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, No. 2010, age 14.11 years, born Bethnal Green, London, home address: 141 St. Stephen Road, Bethnal Green, London. Served Home 8/3/87 to 16/10/07 to discharge time expired at Devonport after 18 years, at own request. Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, Army Order 189 of 1905. 17/5/98 He married Lilly Woolley at Holy Trinity Church, Maidstone, Kent. 28/4/46 died age 74 at School House, Shooters Hill, London. Robert Farquhar. He has the same No. as L/Cpl J W Carter, MMP. Extract from the Salisbury Times 16 August 1907. A FORTNIGHT TO PAY. William Smith, and elderly man, of respectable appearance and quiet manner and no abode, was charged with loitering on War Department land at Bulford Camp, on Monday. Sergeant Robert Farquhar, of the Military Mounted Police, deposed to finding the defendant in the lines and asserted that he refused to go when ordered to move on and told witness he could not make him. Sergt. Phillip Chester, of the 8th Hussars, also spoke to the defendant being in the lines and was making allegations against defendant's character, when the clerk said it was only hearsay evidence and could not be listened to. The defendant said he was no in the Camp ten minutes and had not intention of committing a felony. He had worked there when the Camp was erected and now, as he was passing through, he stepped off the road to have a look round. Fined 10s., including costs and allowed a fortnight to pay. He left the dock wondering how to construe the time limit. |