246494 Pte. Alexander Fillis South African Army South African Medical Corps Alexander Fillis was my grandfather (born 1884), he was born in Canada, then to Bechuanaland Protectorate. He was a private in the S.A.M.C, no 668, he was a patient at the South African Military Hospital in Richmond Park, He met my grandmother Elsie May Taylor, who was either a nurse or a civilian helping in the hospital. They fell in love and married at The Richmond Register office on the 18 October 1919, They later came back to South Africa, had 3 sons, one of which was my father. My grandmother Elsie was from England, so when my grandfather died in SA, she went back to England.
|