Lot Essay
107th Company, 6th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry.
Captain R. Keown Boyd, formerly in the Royal Navy, was commissioned on 17.4.1901, promoted Captain on 11.7.1901 and invalided to the United Kingdom in May 1902. The 107th Company served in Colonel Hickie's Column in the Western Transvaal in May 1901 and was later in Colonel Grenfell's Column during the operations of early 1902. With the latter they were engaged at Roodewal on 11.4.1902 when 800 Boers charged the hastily formed British position.
Captain R. Keown Boyd, formerly in the Royal Navy, was commissioned on 17.4.1901, promoted Captain on 11.7.1901 and invalided to the United Kingdom in May 1902. The 107th Company served in Colonel Hickie's Column in the Western Transvaal in May 1901 and was later in Colonel Grenfell's Column during the operations of early 1902. With the latter they were engaged at Roodewal on 11.4.1902 when 800 Boers charged the hastily formed British position.