In Memory Of

RAMSAY, JOHN GREIG

Service Details
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 P/88
Rank:
 Staff Sergeant
Regiment:
 South African Pay Corps
Date of Death:
 1916-11-19
Cause of Death:
 Died of heart failure, at Pretoria
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Wesleyan. 1690.
Cemetery:
 PRETORIA (REBECCA STREET) CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Gauteng
Country:
 South Africa
Additional Information
Second son of the late J. Ramsay. Brother of Miss Jessie Ramsay, of Gezina, Pretoria. Brother of Mr. G. G. Ramsay, Mountain Dew Farm, Barberton. Born in Edinburgh in 1873, and attended George Watson's College in 1879-89. He was trained as a Chartered Accountant, but his health breaking down, he emigrated to South Africa in 1896. He served during the Boer War, and on the outbreak of the late war joined the S.A.I., with which he campaigned in German South West Africa. At the time of his death he was employed in the audit department of the Command Paymaster's office at Pretoria. On Barberton War Memorial