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Boer War - West Australian CONTINGENT

‘The West Australian’

Perth, Australia

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West Australian Contingent

PUBLISHED Monday, November 6, 1899, Page 5.

 

The following is a list of the contingent as they left Perth, including ages, birthplaces, and previous services.

The Officers
Campbell 5.Leuitenant J.Campbell, 23 (Scotland), civil servant. Served in No 1 Field Battery, W.A.
Darling 4.Leuitenant H.F.Darling, 20 (South Australia), clerk. Served in Geraldton Rifles.
Fraser 6.Sergeant – Major Fraser (Scotland), Served in Imperial Army and on Permanent Staff, W.A
McWilliams 2.Major McWilliams, Medical Officer (Victoria). Served in Prince of Wales Light Horse Infantry, Victoria, Melbourne University Infantry Company, and Perth Artillery.
Moor 1.Captain R.Moor, R.A., 28 (England). Served in Suffolk Artillery Militia, and in No 10 Mountain Battery, Natal, and other South African regiments.
Parker 3.Leuitenant F.W.M.Parker, 23 (Western Australia), solicitor. Served in Perth Mounted Rifles and No 1 Field Battery W.A.

The Men
Allen 38. Philip Allen, 26 years 6 months (Victoria), labourer. Served 18 months in 1st Infantry Reg. W.A.
Allingham 26. John Allingham, 28 years (Victoria), draper. Served 5 years A Company Victorian Rangers.
Ansell 97. James Ansell, 34 years 7 months (Isle of Wight), smelter. Served two years 1st Brigade 2nd Battery Senior Division, R.A. (purchased discharge).
Ashmere 81. Thomas Ashmere, 23 years (Western Australia), labourer. Served 2 years in Perth Infantry.
Attwood 15. Joseph Sedgwick Attwood, 24 years and 8 months (Fremantle), labourer. Served 2 years and 10 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Austin 49. Richard Austin, 25 years (Victoria), accountant. Served 15 months Perth Artillery.
Bailey 78. George S. Bailey, 26 years 9 months. Stockman. Served one year in W.A. Police Force.
Baker 65. Arthur Herbert Baker, 25 years (Victoria), labourer. No previous service.
Balding 28. Frank Balding, 21 years (Victoria), carpenter. Served 15 months in Perth Infantry and 2 months in Perth Artillery.
Barry 75. John Barry, 27 years (South Australia), plasterer. Served 14 months Perth Artillery.
Bell 8.Frederick Bell, 24 years 4 months (Western Australia), civil servant. Served 3 years and 4 months in Perth Artillery.
Bidwell 50. Alexander Bidwell, 27 years (Victoria), butcher. Served 12 months with Naval Brigade, Victoria.
Birch 110. Walter Richard Birch, 21 years 10 months (Victoria), chainman, served two years cadets, Victoria, and 15 months Bunbury Rifle Volunteers.
Bird 104. John Bird, 32 years 7 months (New South Wales), labourer. Served six months with Bunbury Rifle Volunteers.
Bishop 18. George Neville Bishop, 24 years (New South Wales), accountant. Served 8 months in Fremantle Infantry.
Body 24. Charles Sidney Body, 25 years (England), civil servant. No previous service.
Bowden 44. Albert Charles Bowden, 21 years 6 months (Victoria), grocer. Served 18 months 1st Infantry Reg., W.A.
Brown 21. Alfred J. Bessell Brown, 22 years (New Zealand), civil servant. Served 3 years and 3 months in Perth Artillery.
Brown 66. Walter Brown, 27 years 2 months (South Australia), driver. Served 3 months in Fremantle Artillery.
Brown 111. Frederick Simon Cecil Brown, 26 years 9 months (Kent), clerk, served 12 months Plantagenent Rifles, six months Fremantle No.2 Battery, and Albany Volunteer Artillery.
Burley 4.Johnston Burley, 26 years (Ireland), carpenter. Served 3 years 2nd Regiment, Victorian Infantry, 2 years Perth Infantry.
Callicott 88. William Callicott, 33 years (England), labourer. Served 12 years Devonshire Regiment and 18 months in the 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Campbell 29. Charles F. Campbell, 20 years (England), civil servant. Served 5 months Perth Artillery.
Campbell 87. Edward Robson Campbell, 24 years 7 months (Victoria), carpenter. Served 2 years and 6 months in Perth Artillery.
Clare 5.Sidney Clare, 24 years (England), civil servant. Served 5 months 1st Surrey Volunteer Regiment.
Clarke 11.George Clarke, 24 years (South Australia), labourer. Served 18 months in Mounted Rifles, South Australia.
Clarke 27. George Clarke, 26 years (Victoria), baker. No previous service.
Cobb 2.Charles Cobb, 34 years 10 months (England), agent. No previous service.
Collett 30. Murray William Collett, 21 years 2 months (Guernsey), clerk. Served 18 months with 1st Infantry Regiment, W.A.
Conway 95. Alexander Wark, 32 years (Scotland), clerk. Served two years Mounted Rifles, New South Wales.
Conway 96. Michael Conway, 28 years four months (Victoria), tramway employee. Served with C Battery, Victorian Field Artillery, and with No.1 Field Battery, Perth.
Corkill 52. Robert Corkill, 21 years (Victoria), blacksmith. Served 2 years 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Coward 37. John Coward, 25 years (Victoria), packer. No previous service.
Cullen 16. John Cullen, 26 years 10 months (South Australia), civil servant. No previous service.
Cunningham 68. Edward Joseph Cunningham, 20 years (South Australia), coachman. No previous service.
Cunningham 74. James Cunningham, 22 years (South Australia), printer. Served 15 months in Perth Artillery.
Davies 43. Evan Davies, 27 years 11 months (Victoria), carpenter. Served 4 months 1st Infantry Reg., W.A.
Davies 67. William Davies, 33 years (Wales), miner. Served 7 years and 86 days in 21st Hussars.
Day 35. Leo Day, 23 years (England), clerk. No previous service.
Dickman 54. Charles Dickman, 22 years 7 months (Victoria), labourer. Served 5 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Douglas 115. Alexander Douglas, 26 years 11 months (Victoria), hairdresser, served one week York Volunteers.
Dunn 76. Graham Dunn, 34 years (Victoria), labourer. No previous service.
Dunn 77. John Dunn, 28 years (Victoria), labourer. Served 1 year Victorian Mounted Rifles; 1 year Guildford Infantry, West Australian.
Eckert 17. Harry Eckert, 27 years 5 months (New South Wales), labourer. Served 1 year and 3 months 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Edwards 36. Frederick Edwards, 24 years (England), clerk. Served 12 months 1st West Surrey Volunteers and 3 months in R.M.L. Infantry.
Edwards 41. Percy Edwards, 24 years 10 months (Victoria), clerk. Served 3 years 9 months Victorian Field Artillery, and 8 months Perth Field Artillery.
Feare 72. John Samuel Feare, 31 years (New South Wales), sawyer. Served 7 months in New South Wales Naval Volunteer Artillery.
Ferguson 109. Charles Ferguson, 22 years 8 months (Capetown), clerk served two years Geraldton Rifle Volunteers and three years cadets, Victoria.
Ferguson 114. John Maxwell Ferguson, 24 years 3 months (Western Australia), clerk, served with Cadets Corps Geelong Grammar School.
Force 13. Harold Force, 20 years (South Australia), labourer. Served 5 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Forsberg 71. Carl Alfred Forsberg, 22 years, yardman. No previous service.
France 51. Levi France, 21 years (Victoria), stonemason. Served 12 months in Perth Infantry and 2 months Perth Artillery.
Gellatly 58. Arthur Vivian Gellatly, 22 years 4 months (Victoria), farmer. No previous service.
Gifford 92. Graves Gifford, 35 years (Bungalore, East India), engineer. Served two years as lieutenant Surrey Militia and three years as lieutenant 13th L.I. Resigned, 1884.
Golden 64. Thomas Sidney Golden, 21 years (Victoria), grocer. Served 7 months in Fremantle Artillery.
Green 59. Arthur Green, 21 years 7 months (England), station hand. Served two years with Geraldton Rifle Volunteers.
Groser 91. Arthur Wentworth Groser, 22 years three months (Canada), clerk. Served 10 months in Perth Infantry.
Hamilton 80. Thomas Hamilton, 25 years 5 months (West Australia), talleyman. Served 6 years 1st Infantry Regiment, West Australia.
Hart 23. Nathaniel Hart, 29 years (Victoria), lather. Served 7 years in 1st Victorian Infantry Regiment.
Hensman 100. Geoffrey Hensman, 24 years (Bermuda, West Indies), miner. Served from October 1895, to March 1897, in Royal Horse Guards (purchased discharge).
Hutchesson 6.Thomas Hutchesson, 20 years (Guernsey), prospector. No previous service.
Johnston 93. George Johnston, 25 years six months (Victoria), clerk. Served two years D Company Rangers (Victoria), and 11 months in Perth Artillery.
Jones 19. George Jones, 21 years (Victoria), mechanic. Served 4 months in Perth Artillery Volunteers.
Jones 84.Phillip John Jones, 21 years 5 months (Western Australia), carpenter. Served 18 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Kay 57. Martin Bulmer Kay, 22 years 6 months (England), engineer. Served 2 years 1st Lanark Volunteers.
Kelly 61. Albert Edwin Kelly, 21 years 8 months (Victoria), labourer. No previous service.
Kenny 48. Stephen Kenny, 22 years (Victoria), bookbinder. Served 4 years 2nd Victorian Regiment Infantry and 18 months Perth Infantry.
Kidd 105. John Edgar Kidd, 21 years 4 months (Victoria), clerk. Served 2 ½ years Geraldton Rifles.
Kruger 94. Alexander Kruger, 31 years 6 months (Victoria), engineer. Served eleven years with the Victorian Militia.
Leigh 42. Charles Leigh, 22 years (Victoria), bootmaker. Served 4 years 10 months in F.Company Victorian Rangers.
Lessey 33. Barton Scobell Lessey, 29 years 11 months (England), detective. Served 9 months in Perth Artillery.
Loane 79. George Loane, 24 years 6 months (West Australia), packer. Served 3 years 1st Infantry Regiment, West Australia;1 year 11 months Permanent Artillery, West Australia; and 3 years No.2 Field Artillery.
Loughton 53. Herbert Loughton, 22 years 4 months (Victoria), engineer. Served 4 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Love 1.Alexander Love, 20 years 10 months (Victoria), labourer. No previous service.
Lowe 12. George Lowe, 26 years (South Australia), electrician. No previous service.
Maley 106. Albert Maley, 25 years (Western Australia), blacksmith, served one year Geraldton Volunteers.
Marshall 22. George Marshall, 27 years 5 months (New Zealand), labourer, no previous service.
McComb 101. David McComb, 27 years 9 months (Ireland), accountant. No previous service.
McFarlane 116. Thomas McFarlane, 21 years 10 months (Victoria), grocer, served five months Perth Artillery.
McSwain 47. Malcolm McSwain, 22 years 8 months (Victoria), labourer. Served 5 months Guildford Infantry.
Messer 99. Jacques Forquharson Messer, 25 years 8 months (Victoria), clerk. Served two years with Victorian Cadets.
Mills 83. William Checkly Mills, 20 years 11 months (New South Wales), clerk. Served 2 years and 6 months in Perth Artillery.
Minchin 82. Joseph Henry Minchin, 20 years 1 month (West Australia, farm labourer. Served 10 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Mitchell 90. Charles Mitchell, 26 years 11 months (London), plumber. Served six years 1st Infantry Regiment.
Monger 102. Lionel Monger, 22 years 5 months (West. Australia). Served six years with York Infantry.
Moore 113.Godfrey Moore, 32 years 10 months (Western Australia), prospector, no previous service.
Moris 31. George Augustus Moris, 24 years 9 months (Victoria), miner. Served one year with the Victorian Royal Horse Artillery.
Morrison 25. Alexander Morrison, 30 years (England), miner. Served 6 years Durban Artillery Militia.
Mountjoy 7.Adam Mountjoy, 33 years 1 month (Western Australia), farmer. Served 16 years in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Murray 46. William Alexander Murray, 24 years (Vic.), clerk. No previous service.
North 107. John North, 28 years 1 month (Belfast, Ireland), carpenter, served three years Bunbury Rifle Volunteers.
O’Connell 32. John O’Connell, 32 years (Ireland), labourer. Served 8 years 110 days 1st Battalion R.I.F..3 months in Perth Artillery and Headquarters Band.
Pye 39. Robert S. Pye, 24 years (Victoria), traveller. Served 1 year 8 months Garrison Artillery, 12 months Victorian Infantry, and 18 months Perth Artillery.
Reynolds 103. John Reynolds, 26 years 6 months (South Australia), assayer. No previous service.
Richardson 85. James Richardson, 28 years (England), plasterer. No previous service.
Robinson 9.Arthur Robinson, 23 years 4 months (London), labourer. Served 4 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Saunders 14. David Saunders, 26 years (South Australia), railway employee. Served 12 months in Perth Artillery.
Scott 40. Charles Scott, 21 years and 5 months (Victoria), bootmaker. Served 19 months in Perth Artillery.
Shannon 70. Thomas Shannon, 23 years (Victoria), station hand. No previous service.
Shaw 108. Septimus Lachlan Shaw, 20 years 7 months (Victoria), labourer, served 18 months Bunbury Rifle Volunteers.
Shaw 117. Hugh Thomas Shaw, 25 years 4 months (Victoria), carpenter, served two years Bunbury Rifles. In Charge of the Maxim Guns.
Sherard 62. Norman Sherard, 21 years 9 months (Victoria), clerk. No previous service.
Smith 63. Michael Patrick Smith, 28 years 6 months (New South Wales), labourer. Served 1 year 6 months in 3rd Infantry regiment, New South Wales.
Smith 69. James Arthur Smith, 26 years (Victoria), railway employee. No previous service.
Spreadbury 34. Arthur Spreadbury, 20 years 9 months (England), labourer. Served 12 months in 1st Infantry, W.A. and 6 months in 2nd Field Battery.
Sweeney 89. Alexander Sweeney, 21 years three months (West Australia), draper. Served six years in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Thompson 73. Alfred Thompson, 20 years (West Australia), engineering cadet. No previous service.
Tratham 60. John Edwin Tratham, 22 years 4 months (South Australia), secretary. Served 2 years in South Australian Infantry and 1 year in South Australian Garrison Artillery.
Uncles 112. Samuel John Uncles, 30 years 6 months (Ireland), student, served 12 years 47th Regiment.
Vernon 56. John George Warren Vernon, 26 years 2 months (England), electrician. Served 5 years and 39 days Victorian Permanent Artillery, 1 year Harbour Trust Battery, G.A.V., and 9 months Perth Artillery.
Watson 10. Thomas Frederick Watson, 26 years (England), accountant. No previous service.
Wauchupe 98. Robert Wauchupe, 22 years (Ireland), farmer. Served two years with Fremantle Artillery.
Wheeler 55. George Wheeler, 21 years 3 months (Victoria), painter. Served 9 months in Field Artillery, Victoria; 5 months 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
White 86. William Richard White, 23 years (Western Australia), bootmaker. Served 5 years in Perth Infantry.
Wilkinson 3.John Wilkinson, 35 years (England), miner. Served 7 years and 9 months in 2nd Battalion H.L.I.
Williams 20. Frederick Williams, 24 years 7 months (Victoria), carter. Served 14 months in 1st Infantry Regiment, Western Australia.
Yeo 45. John Charles Yeo, 21 years (Victoria), law clerk. Served 1 year 9 months Perth Artillery.

 

From the Permanent Albany Garrison:
Copeland Bombadiers. Served in Western Australia and elsewhere.
McWhirter Bombadiers. Served in Western Australia and elsewhere.
Geald? Gunner. Served in Western Australia and elsewhere.
Paul Gunner. Served in Western Australia and elsewhere.
Reynolds Gunner. Served in Western Australia and elsewhere.
Treblecock Gunner. Served in Western Australia and elsewhere.

 
 

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