Description
Queen’s South Africa, 3 bars, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, 4359 Pte Frederick Seward Whyte, 2nd Dragoons, the Scots Greys.
Entitlement confirmed on the medal roll, which notes him as “White” but states that the medal was correctly issued as “Whyte” on 1st May 1903.
An unusual combination of “Battle Bars” from 1899 to mid 1900, it appears he was invalided home as he did not earn any further bars after Driefontein, circa March 1900.
Shown on his Pension Card as Frederick Seward Whyte, discharged to pension from the Dragoons on 4th December 1908.
Frederick Seward Whyte was born circa 1878.
He next appears after his discharge on the 1911 Census, living in Norfolk, a “Patient” working as a Hospital Porter at the Fletcher Convalescent Home.
He stated that he was born in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales.
The Fletcher Convalescent Home was named after a Norwich printer, Benjamin Fletcher who provided both the land and the building.
It opened in 1893, after 1900 it then look after patients who were from the Boer War.
He died in Norfolk on 14th November 1930.
