Victorian Officer's Commission scroll of Ralph Farrar Markham, 8th Princess Louise's New Brunswick Hussars, dated 4th March 1898. This officer served in the Boer War with the Royal Canadian Dragoons and the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles as an NCO. He later moved to Vancouver where he joined the 72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada on 24 November, 1910. He was a captain and the Signalling Officer. At the outbreak of the Great War, he joined the 16th Battalion, CEF. He was subsequently killed in action with the 16th Battalion, CEF on 19 August, 1915 while doing a reece in the front of the lines at Ypres. World War I Service File attached to Media. DOUBLE NUMBERED WITH 2011.025.001. THIS ACCESSION HAS COPIES OF HIS BOER WAR AND WW I RECORDS.