Captain Edward Boaz Eagar (not Eager as on the memorial), 1st Battalion the Northumberland Fusiliers. Son of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Hungerford Eagar and Elizabeth Eagar (daughter of the late Denis Kelly of Castle Kelly, Co Galway Ireland). Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the 41st Foot in Aug 1880. Transferred to the 5th Foot in Oct 1880. Promoted to Lieutenant Jul 1881 and to Captain Jan 1890. He was adjutant to the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, Jun 1891 to Jun 1896. He served in the Nile Expedition 1898, and was present at the battle of Khartoum, receiving the medal, also the Egyptian medal, with clasp. He deployed to South Africa with his battalion for the Second Anglo Boer War, sailing in the beginning of Oct 1899, and being early on the scene, ware employed on garrison duty in Cape Colony till Lt Gen Lord Methuen commenced his advance from Orange River. He was killed in action aged 39 years at the Battle of Belmont, North of Hopetown, Cape Colony on 23 Nov 1899. It is stated that he was killed by a wounded Boer who was holding up a white flag. He was buried on the battlefield at St Thomas's Farm cemetery. His remains were later reinterred in West End Cemetery, Kimberley. Captain Eagar was married Jul-Sep 1889 in Cheltenham to Ada Mary Barbara Thoyts, daughter of Colonel Thoyts, and left a widow and four children. He is also commemorated on the Newcastle upon Tyne Boer War memorial in the Haymarket, St Mary's Place, Northumberland Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, England (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/200052); on his Mother's grave in St Peter's Churchyard (cemetery ID 2135023), Leckhampton, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire;
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on a memorial plaque in St Nicholas' Church, Church Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne (see:https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/273126), on a memorial plaque in the Garrison Church, Portsmouth to Captain Edward Boaz Eager and Lieutenant Robert Walter Maxwell Brine (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/75894/) and on a Boer War memorial tablet in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
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His brother Lieutenant Frank Whitworth Eagar, 33rd Duke of Wellington's Regiment, was killed in action on 27 Nov 1884 when serving as Captain in the Egyptian Army during the Sudan Campaign.