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The late Captain Nairne, 94th Regiment, 1881. Creator: Unknown.

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The late Captain Nairne, 94th Regiment, 1881. Officer killed in the Transvaal War, '...in the first action with the Boers, on Dec. 20, when a detachment of that regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Anstruther, was attacked on its march from Lydenburg to Pretoria. Captain Nairne (Stanford Norman McLeod Nairne) was born in 1841, the third son of the late Alexander Darnley Nairne, Esq., J.P., of Kingston, Jamaica...He entered the Army in 1862, obtained a first-class "extra" certificate of proficiency at Hythe, and served with his regiment, the 94th, during five years in India, returning to England in February, 1868. He held, nearly four years, the appointment of Adjutant of his regiment. In May, 1878, he received his company, and in February, 1879, went to South Africa with his regiment for the Zulu War. Captain Nairne was present at the battle of Ulundi, and afterwards served in the storming and capture of Sekukuni's stronghold..."Captain Nairne was a smart and energetic soldier, an intellectual man, and of a noble nature. His genial and unselfish disposition, with a courteous manner, gained him friends and admirers wherever he went".' Nairne was of mixed race - his grandmother was Sarah Williams, a Free Black woman born in Jamaica. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.

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