General Notes

Frank Tippin Ballard in his diary written late in life (in the possession of Ralph Ballard) records that:
"Tom did not get on with his stepfather after his mother remarried.  He ran away from home and joined the Warwickshire Regiment and later served in the First Boer War.  He subsequently also served in the Second Boer War with the King's Own Hussars under Prince Alexander (the Earl of Ashlone), and eventually became Prince Alexander's orderly.  He also served in the army in India.
Tom married Gertrude Holtzhausen (Boer) at Pretoria, South Africa.
He later worked as a guard on the Cape-to-Cairo railway."