86 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF  
RoLANn HENRY GALPIN, second son of Ernest Edward Galpin,
- "of Mosdene Estate, Transvaal.
When the Great War broke out in 1914 Roland Galpin
was a student at the Middleburg Agricultural College  Cape
Province), and with many others joined up immediately. As
he had already been through his military training he was at
once sent to the German S.W'. Africa frontier to prevent an
invasion of the British territory and was one of the first to be
shot, while out scouting, in the desert country near the Orange
River. Owing to some neglect, and through having to travel
a great distance in a bullock wagon instead of an ambulance,
the wound proved fatal and he died on the road in an out of the
way place. A memorial tablet was erected to him in the
Church at Q,ueen’s Town, where his parents then resided.
Although only twenty years of age and not finished growing
he was 6 ft. 4. in. in height and weighed over 200 pounds.
He was a champion cricketer and excelled in all manly sports
as well as intellectual attainments.
" Qui precul lziuc ? The legends writ,
The frontier grave is far away,
Qui uute diem periit F
Sed mi/es, sed pro putrié ! "
GALPIN OF MITCHAM, SURREY
]ames Galpin of Galpins, in the Parish of Mitcham,
Surrey. Will proved May 1789; his son ]ames Galpin,
Captain 54th Regt. of Foot, died at Antigua, will proved
4 Dec. 1807 (left daughter Mary Ann}; his eldest daughter
Ma1·y, sister and co-heiress of James Galpin, Capt., married
26 june 1792 Daniel Watney of Mitcham, Surrey, of which
parish he was Lay Rector. She died IO March 1 8 30, leaving
issue. She had a brother Samuel and three sisters.
Arms of Galpin as quartered with Watney: Quarterly,
Argent and Or, a cross fleurettée gules, in the first and fourth
quarters a lion rampant of the last, charged with three bars of
the second.