Description
Queen’s South Africa, 3 bars, CC OFS Tvl, 4257 Private Fred Tindall, 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment, who was attached from the 3rd Militia Battalion for the war. Lincolnshire Local Man.
Officially engraved: “4257 Pte F. Tindall. 2/Linc Rgt”
Neat official correction to service number.
Confirmed on the medal roll.
With copy Militia attestation papers.
Fred was a serving member of the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Regiment when he joined the 2nd Battalion of the Regular Army to take pat in the Boer War.
Fred was born in the village of Nocton, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire circa 1874-5. Son of James Tindall and Ellen Scattliffe Taylor
Fred joined his local Militia, the 3rd Bn Linc Regt on 12th April 1898 aged 22.
He was among those embodied for active service in the Boer War on 9th May 1900, returning back home on 27th August 1902 to the Militia.
Fred would return back home to Lincolnshire to live a long life, he married Mary Ann Doughty there during 1904.
He died there during 1964 at which time he must have been about 90 years old.