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South African (Second Boer) War, 1899 - 1902, Australian Forces, Roll of Honour

Citation: South African (Second Boer) War: 1899-1902, Embarkation Roll: JOY to JUS

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New South Wales Citizens Bushmen's Contingent

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New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron
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New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent

"A" Squadron

New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron

[From: The Town and Country Journal, 24 February 1900, p. 24. Click on picture for full size.]

The men listed in this photograph according to the number allotted to them in the photograph. If there is a photograph of the man in the New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent Photograph Album, it will be linked. Should you wish to see the full sized photograph of this page from the Town and Country Journal, click on the photograph or use the following link:

New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron

New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron - the men:

1. 27 Trooper Harry Zouch WILSON
2. 109 Trooper Joseph Michael CUSACK
3. 9 Trooper Charles Joseph HURTZ
4. 83 Trooper Charles AUSLING
5. 127 Trooper George Henry Flood GIBSON
6. 79 Trooper John Archibald STOPPELBEIN
7. 108 Trooper Angus McLeod BUCHANAN
8. 12 Trooper Claude BARNES
9. 43 Trooper Edwin SMITH
10. 36 Trooper Arthur Hilton FARNELL
11. 130 Lance Corporal Harold Edwin MCCULLOUGH
12. 28 Trooper Ernest THOMAS
13. 70 Trooper Albert John EASTAUGHFFE
14. 112 Trooper Hedley Vicars DOWE
15. Trooper Standish Baldwin DOWE, did not embark.
16. 107 Trooper Patrick BURKE
17. Trooper James FOTHERINGHAM, did not embark.
18. 118 Trooper Osman Frederick Hume MIDDLETON
19. 4 Trooper George William ELLY
20. 52 Trooper Beresford Frederick CAMPBELL
21. 120 Trooper William Wallace BUNTON
22. 85 Trooper Robert George DAVENPORT
23. 49 Trooper Allen DOUGLAS
24. 117 Trooper George Tindall TURNER
25. 94 Trooper Ernest SALISBURY
26. 98 Trooper Charles James MANSERGH
27. 82 Trooper Donald FRASER
28. 62 Trooper Charles WINNETTE
29. 44 Trooper Thomas SUTTON
30. 68 Trooper James Miles LOGAN
31. 25 Trooper Arthur Thomas NEVILLE
32. 47 Trooper Neil RANKIN
33. 75 Trooper James Edwin WALKER
34. 88 Trooper William Paul MCLEAN
35. 65 Trooper George SHEPHERD
36. 110 Trooper Frederick John MURRAY
37. 125 Trooper Andrew THOMPSON
38. 87 Trooper Ernest Noel MILLS (Recorded on picture as J. MILLS.)
39. 35 Trooper Frederick ELLIOTT
40. 72 Trooper David LEES
41. 100 Trooper Albert Edward ONUS
42. 95 Trooper Charles Peter Stanislaus SLOEY
43. 90 Trooper Henry PLOENGES
44. 45 Trooper Philip DICKINSON
45. 63 Trooper Walter ROBB
46. 84 Trooper Kelvedon GULSON
47. 34 Trooper James Daniel DUFF
48. 33 Trooper Robert WHITE
49. 78 Trooper Adam MURRAY
50. 26 Trooper Fergus Stewart FRATER (Recorded on picture as T. FRATER.)
51. 11 Lance Corporal Alfred POUNCEBY
52. 50 Trooper Leslie William ROSEN
53. 137 Trooper William O'MALLEY
54. 99 Corporal Edwin James MORROW
55. 41 Trooper John Theodore BRUNNING
56. 69 Trooper Patrick PERRIN
57. 31 Trooper Robert HODGE
58. 92 Trooper James TARVIS (Recorded on picture as A. TARVIS.)
59. 37 Trooper Lewis Gore ORMSBY
60. 104 Trooper Daniel Peter MEEHAN
61. 77 Corporal Lionel George MACARTHUR (Recorded on picture as J. McARTHUR.)
62. 38 Trooper Richard William Peard BURROW
63. 51 Trooper James Thomas STRUCK
64. 29 Trooper Frederick William MARKS
65. 97 Corporal Thomas Evans KEENE
66. 10 Trooper Tom ILLIFE
67. 32 Lance Corporal Henry Otto BOHLSEN
68. 15 Sergeant Frank V WEIR
69. 16 Corporal William Nivison KELMAN (Recorded on picture as W. KELLERMAN.)
70. 132 Sergeant George Henry WHEELER
71. 122 Sergeant John Cuthbert BURROW (Recorded on picture as J.A. BURROW.)
72. 2 Trooper Ernest Edward BRIGDEN
73. 3 Trooper Frederick William STANTON
74. 30 Trooper Frank Lomas DAVIDSON
75. 1 Trooper Donald MACKENZIE
76. 103 Trooper Michael SMITH
77. 66 Trooper Alfred MAYNE
78. Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant Thomas WINTERTON, (Veteran of the Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-1885), did not embark.
79. 67 Corporal George Reginald MCGUINNESS (Recorded on picture as S.R. McGUINNESS.)
80. 115 Corporal Fitzroy Augustus BUCKLETON
81. 71 Trooper Edward Christopher ANDERSON
82. 42 Trooper George CHARLES
83. 74 Trooper Alfred PRUSSING
84. 126 Trooper George Henry RALSTON
85. 101 Trooper William SHANNON (Recorded on picture as R. SHANNON.)

Further Reading:

New South Wales Citizens Bushmen's Contingent, Roll of Honour

Citation: New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron

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The Battle of Driefontein and Abraham's Kraal, 10 March 1900

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"A" Squadron, NSW Mounted Rifles, Bloemfontein, 13 March 1900
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"A" Squadron, NSW Mounted Rifles

Bloemfontein, 13 March 1900

During their tour of South Africa, "A" Squadron, NSW Mounted Rifles participated in many different actions as part of the British force. One of the actions occurred at Bloemfontein, 13 March 1900. The following is a list of all members of the squadron who took part in this action.

On the surrender of General Cronje, the Now South Wales Mounted Rifles were personally detailed by Lord Roberts to take over his laager and prisoners. It was then attached to Colonel Le Gallais' command, and joined by Colonel Knight, with the 2nd Contingent at Osfontein, 5th March. Took part in the engagements at Abrahams Kraal and Driefontein and the march to Bloemfontein, which was reached on 14th March.

Bloemfontein, 13 March 1900

107 Private Herbert AGLAND
10 Corporal Alfred Edward Elkington ALLEN
Major John Macquarie ANTILL
9 Corporal James APPS
106 Private Reginald Thomas ARNOLD
85 Private Francis William AXAM

70 Private Thomas BALL
5 Sergeant William Henry BARHAM
16 Private Reginald Richard BATTYE
17 Private William BENDER
18 Private Arthur Thomas BENNETT
86 Private James BLACKWOOD
87 Lance Corporal Albert John BOLLARD
21 Private Ed. Counde BULL
88 Private Michael Joseph BURKE
89 Private Arthur Albert BUTLER

90 Private Ed. Thomas CLEARY
77 Private Herbert CORBETT
25 Private Austin Clarendon COX
24 Private William Sydney CRIPPS

37 Bugler Verdi Robert DALY
27 Private Walter Henry DAWSON
7 Farrier Sergeant J DENNY
28 Corporal Dugald DRUMMOND

102 Private John FIELD

30 Farrier Sergeant Hubert GARLICK
8 Lance Sergeant John Robert GILFILLAN

32 Private Ernest James HACKETT
33 Private Edwin George HAWES
81 Sergeant John Martin HAWKEY
Warrant Officer Richard Charles HOLMAN
43 Private James HOPKINS

34 Private Arthur Herbert JAMES

36 Private John KELLY
35 Private Wilfred John KIRKLAND, Died of Enteric fever, Bloemfontein, 20 May 1900.

37 Corporal Charles Arthur LEE
38 Private Gifford Caleb LEETE
39 Private Edward James LINDSAY
104 Private William George LLOYD

128 Private George MASON
74 Private George MAXTED
2 Squadron Sergeant Major Adam MCALLISTER
44 Corporal David MCALLISTER
40 Private Alexander MCDONALD
41 Private John MCDONALD
42 Private Norman MCGREGOR
43 Private Peter MCGREGOR
Lieutenant Harold MCINTOSH
Captain Archibald Alexander MCLEAN
105 Private William MCLEOD
46 Corporal Charles Robert MILLAR
47 Private Christian MILLER
14 Trumpeter Charles George MILLS
93 Private Patrick Thomas MOORE
49 Private Michael George MOSS
50 Private James MULLAMPY
51 Private George MURRAY

94 Sergeant Robert John NETHERY
Lieutenant Joseph NEWMAN

Lieutenant Arthur John Macarthur ONSLOW
83 Corporal Edmund OSBORNE

101 Private Wellington Henry PEARCE
76 Private Walter Frank PITT

54 Private William Cuff QUINN

48 Private Alfred John REEVES
95 Private Phillip John REILLY

79 Private Wilfred SAVAGE
96 Private Henry SHARPE, Died of Enteric fever, Bloemfontein, 30 May 1900.
97 Private Robert SHARPE
58 Private Albert Edward SMITH
60 Corporal Rex SMITH
28 Private Benjamin Charles SPEARING
75 Private Graham STEWART
61 Private Harold Bruce SUTTOR
56 Private James Henry SWAN
57 Lance Corporal Richard SWAN

Lieutenant Douglas Keith Lucas TOOTH

64 Private John WALKER
84 Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant John WARDROBE
80 Sergeant Major John WASSON
71 Sergeant Albert Ernest WEARNE
11 Lance Sergeant Sydney WEEKES
66 Private Leslie WEST
67 Private Richard Stephen WILSON
100 Private William Edward WINTLE

68 Private Horace YOUNG

Sources: All information on this page is sourced from Murray, P. L., Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa, pp. 28 - 40A; and, an undated compilation of the activities of “A” Squadron, NSW Mounted Rifles produced by Major JM Antill and subsequently published by the Government Printer.

Further Reading:

New South Wales Mounted Rifles, "A" Squadron

New South Wales Mounted Rifles, "A" Squadron, Roll of Honour

Citation: "A" Squadron, NSW Mounted Rifles, Bloemfontein, 13 March 1900

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2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles

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2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Outline
Topic: BW - NSW - 2NSWMR

2nd NSWMR
2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles

Outline

Map illustrating the activities of 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles in South Africa, 1901 - 1902.

[From: Chamberlain, M., The Australians in the South African War 1899-1902, Canberra, 1999.]

In 1911, Lieutenant-Colonel P. L. Murray, produced a marvellous Boer War reference detailing all the contingents sent from Australia to South Africa, giving a brief history of the formation and finally, listing all the soldiers who saw service in South Africa with that unit. The book was called, Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa. It is now the standard reference and starting place for any person interested in pursuing information about Australian involvement in the Boer War.

Murray, P. L., Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa, pp. 106 - 108.

Second New South Wales Mounted Rifles.

This regiment was established at Sydney upon pretty much the same lines as the 1st Mounted Rifles; except that, as no service squadrons were away, the whole corps was embodied in New South Wales.

Preference was given to trained men who were good shots and good riders, subject to tests as ordered. The age limit was 20 to 40 years; standard height, 5 feet 6 inches and upwards; minimum chest measurement, 34 inches. Applicants were also required to be single men and to pass a military medical examination. Rates of pay as for Citizen's Bushmen.

Establishment authorized:-
1 Lieutenant Colonel,
1 Major,
1 Adjutant,
1 Quartermaster,
1 Transport Officer,
1 Veterinary Officer,
1 Sergeant-Major (Warrant-Officer),
1 Quartermaster-Sergeant,
2 Clerks,
2 Medical Orderlies,
12 Batmen.

Machine gun section:-
2 Officers,
2 Sergeants,
2 Corporals,
12 Gunners,
12 Drivers,
4 Batmen;

Total:-
8 Officers,
1 Warrant-Officer,
49 N.C.O.'s and men;
Total 58,
With 34 horses.

Five squadrons. Each:-
1 Major or Captain,
4 Subalterns,
1 Staff Sergeant-Major,
1 Farrier Sergeant,
5 Sergeants,
3 Shoeing Smiths,
1 Saddler,
2 Buglers,
6 Corporals,
106 Troopers (including 5 Drivers, 5 Batmen, 2 Cooks, 2 Wagon-Men).

Total of a Squadron,
5 Officers,
125 Sergeants and rank and file,
with 125 horses.

Total of the regiment,
33 Officers,
1 Warrant-Officer,
674 N.C.O.'s and men (708),
with 659 horses.

Clothing

Uniform consisted of F.S. jacket, pants, puttees, and hat. Equipped partially with saddles.

Departure and Return.

Embarkation of the SS Maplemore (left) and the SS Custodian (right) at Cowper Wharf.

[Sydney Mail, 23 March 1901. p. 726.]

The regiment left Sydney on 15th March, 1901. It consisted of 33 officers and 673 of other ranks, with 700 horses, and disembarked at Port Elizabeth, 17th April. Of these, 2 officers and 23 others were killed or died, 3 officers and 10 others were struck off the strength in South Africa, 28 officers and 640 others returned to Australia. Embarked at Cape Town on 4th May, 1902; called at Albany on 21st May, Melbourne, 29th May, and disembarked at Sydney, 4th June.

A draft for the regiment was despatched on 21st March, 1901, of 9 officers and 281 others, with 320 horses; 7 were killed or died; 2 officers, 27 others were struck off in South Africa, and 7 officers and 207 others returned.

Operations.

The 2nd Now South Wales Mounted Rifles were engaged in operations against Generals De La Rey, getup, Potgeitiers, and Vermaas:-

(a) Served in the Western Transvaal, under the command of Major-General Fetherstonhaugh, from 23rd April to the 1st October, the principal operations being the capture of Potgeitiers' convoy on the Vaal, 24th May, 1901; capture by the regiment of General De La Rays convoy of 106 waggons, a large quantity of cattle, ammunition, &c.

(b) Served in the Eastern Transvaal, under Major-General Fetherstonhaugh; engaged in many night marches, resulting in over 1,000 prisoners being captured.

The regiment served under Colonel E. T. C. Williams, of the “Buffs," throughout, with the exception of six weeks, when the column was commanded by Lieut -Colonel Lassetter.

Extracts from Column Orders, issued 17th April 1902, at Standerton

The command of this, a purely Australian Column, has been a great pleasure of the officer commanding, and he desires to thank every one for their cordial support and unfailing loyalty at all times.

During the year the Column has been in existence it has travelled upwards of 4,000 miles in every part of the Transvaal, doing much fighting and hard work, all of which has been most cheerfully carried out. One specially noteworthy feature is that, though constantly engaged with the enemy, only 18 men have been taken prisoners, and of them the larger number were taken on the first fight at Korranafontein and through no fault of the men. This record, which it is impossible to beat, speaks volumes for the spirit and soldierly qualities of the Australian Soldier. No Column has made more night marches; and one march, made on the night of 11 March 1902 from Brugspruit, over the difficult Wilge River to Doornek (230) a distance of 45 miles, which, with the return journey, makes a distance of 75 miles, is worthy of mention. Finally, to Lieutenant Colonel Lassetter, Commanding 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, and to Major Lydiard, 2nd Mounted Rifles, the officer commanding Column desires to express his grateful thanks.

One hundred and forty-one officers, NCO's and men, never missed a trek during the regiment's service in the field.

Further Reading:

2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Roll of Honour

Citation: 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Outline

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New South Wales Citizens Bushmen's Contingent

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New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron, 10 February 1900
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New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent

"A" Squadron, 10 February 1900

New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron, 10 February 1900

[From: The Sydney Mail, 10 February 1900, pp. 330-1. Click on picture for full size.]

The men listed in this photograph according to the number allotted to them in the photograph. If there is a photograph of the man in the New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent Photograph Album, it will be linked. Should you wish to see the full sized photograph of this page from The Sydney Mail, click on the photograph or use the following link:

New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron, 10 February 1900

New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron - the men:

1. STRANGER
2. 64 Trooper John William HEWITT
3. 90 Trooper Henry PLOENGES
4. 45 Trooper Philip DICKINSON
5. 34 Trooper James Daniel DUFF
6. 37 Trooper Lewis Gore ORMSBY
7. 35 Trooper Frederick ELLIOTT
8. No name given.
9. 53 Trooper Patrick John FOWLER
10. 52 Trooper Beresford Frederick CAMPBELL
11. 66 Trooper Alfred MAYNE
12. 103 Trooper Michael SMITH
13. 31 Trooper Robert HODGE
14. 48 Trooper Herman HOLM
15. 21 Trumpeter Rupert de Lacey PEEK
16. 107 Trooper Patrick BURKE
17. 110 Trooper Frederick John MURRAY
18. 69 Trooper Patrick PERRIN
19. 85 Trooper Robert George DAVENPORT
20. 9 Trooper Charles Joseph HURTZ
21. 1 Trooper Donald MACKENZIE
22. 8 Trooper Allan MACDONALD
23. 51 Trooper James Thomas STRUCK
24. STRANGER
25. 120 Trooper William Wallace BUNTON
26. 105 Trooper Ernest CAMPBELL
27. 73 Trooper James Edmund Rowland CLARKE
28. 65 Trooper George SHEPHERD
29. No name given.
30. No name given.
31. 72 Trooper David LEES
32. 81 Trooper Thomas BORLASE
33. 422 Lance Corporal John SCOTT, later allotted to "D" Squadron.
34. 125 Trooper Andrew THOMPSON
35. 10 Trooper Tom ILLIFE
36. 102 Trooper Ernest MCDOUGALL
37. 101 Trooper William SHANNON
38. 60 Trooper William MCGRATH
39. 83 Trooper Charles AUSLING
40. 98 Trooper Charles James MANSERGH
41. 79 Trooper John Archibald STOPPELBEIN
42. 47 Trooper Neil RANKIN
43. 112 Trooper Hedley Vicars DOWE
44. Trooper Standish Baldwin DOWE
45. 121 Trooper Richard SHANNON
46. 78 Trooper Adam MURRAY
47. 41 Trooper John Theodore BRUNNING
48. 71 Trooper Edward Christopher ANDERSON
49. 26 Trooper Fergus Stewart FRATER
50. Trooper James FOTHERINGHAM
51. 94 Trooper Ernest SALISBURY
52. 46 Sergeant Walter MYERS
53. 32 Lance Corporal Henry Otto BOHLSEN
54. 7 Trooper Alfred Charles WHERRATT
55. 92 Trooper James TARVIS
56. 74 Trooper Alfred PRUSSING
57. 54 Trooper Sydney James TAYLOR
58. No name given.
59. 25 Trooper Arthur Thomas NEVILLE
60. 3 Trooper Frederick William STANTON
61. 2 Trooper Ernest Edward BRIGDEN
62. 108 Trooper Angus McLeod BUCHANAN
63. 50 Trooper Leslie William ROSEN
64. 4 Trooper George William ELLY
65. No name given.
66. 33 Trooper Robert WHITE
67. No name given.
68. 100 Trooper Albert Edward ONUS
69. 43 Trooper Edwin SMITH
70. 88 Trooper William Paul MCLEAN
71. 70 Trooper Albert John EASTAUGHFFE
72. 117 Trooper George Tindall TURNER
73. 96 Trooper William Francis HUNT
74. 87 Trooper Ernest Noel MILLS
75. 116 Trooper John O'CONNELL
76. 80 Trooper Edwin ROBINSON
77. 77 Corporal Lionel George MACARTHUR
78. Captain James Francis THOMAS
79. Second Lieutenant Charles CORNWALL
80. Lieutenant D William COPE
81. 131 Sergeant John QUINLIVAN
82. 132 Sergeant George Henry WHEELER
83. 115 Corporal Fitzroy Augustus BUCKLETON
84. 129 Lance Corporal James REYNOLDS
85. No name given.
86. 39 Lance Corporal Thomas Reuben Hamilton GIBB
87. 16 Corporal William Nivison KELMAN
88. 11 Lance Corporal Alfred POUNCEBY
89. 22 Trumpeter William Henry MANKEY
90. 40 Sergeant John Barber SPROAT

Further Reading:

New South Wales Citizens Bushmen's Contingent, Roll of Honour

Citation: New South Wales Citizens Bushmans Contingent, "A" Squadron, 10 February 1900

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Updated: Friday, 5 August 2011 2:15 PM EADT