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Boer War - Victoria, Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902, Roll of Honour

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Thursday, 30 October 2003

Boer War - Victoria, Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902, Outline
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Boer War - Victoria

Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902

Outline

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. 211 - 213.

Victoria Prefatory.

On the 28th September, 1899, and following days, a Conference of Military Commandants was held at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne. This had been convened at the invitation of the Government of Victoria for the purpose of submitting a scheme for the consideration of the various Governments, by which, should they decide to do so, a United Australian Military Contingent could be organized for service in South Africa in the event of a war with the Boers.

President:

Major-General Sir Charles Holled Smith, K.C.M.G., Commandant, Victoria.

Members:

Major-General G. A. French, C.M.G., Commandant, New South Wales. Major-General Hunter, Commandant, Queensland. Colonel G. H. Chippindall, Commandant, Western Australia. Colonel W. V. Legge, Commandant, Tasmania. Colonel J. Stuart, Commandant, South Australia.

Secretary:

Colonel J. C. Hoad, A.A.G., Victoria.

It was decided (inter alia) that in the opinion of the Conference the necessary Acts should be passed without delay by each of the several Colonies to enable their respective Military Contingents to act, either as a combined force or otherwise, for service outside Australia.

Further, that pay should be recommended on the following scale:-Gunners and privates, 4s. 6d. per diem ; acting bombardiers, 5e.; bombardiers, Bs. 6d.; corporals, 7a.; sergeants, 8s.; coy. sergeant-majors, 8s.; staff sergeants, 10s.; warrant officers, 11s. 6d.

And that a force of about 5,000 of all ranks should be sent, divided as follows -New South Wales 745, viz. - Horse Artillery 120, Cavalry and Mounted Rifles 300, Infantry 265, Department Corps and Engineers 60. Queensland-Mounted Rifles and Machine Gun Section, 278. South Australia 140, namely-mounted Rifles 40, Infantry 80. Tasmania-Infantry 160. Western Australia - Infantry, 160. Victoria, 543; thus disposed-Mounted Rifles 198, Infantry 345. General Staff, 30, to be made up amongst the Colonies.

No result followed, however, other than that when the war broke out, an Australian Regiment was formed (for details of which see let Victorian Contingent). This was an administrative, not a consolidated battalion.
Victoria passed the following enabling Acts:-63 Vict. No, 1619 (Victorian Military Contingent Act), enabling forces to be raised under Defences and Discipline Acts, and to come under Imperial Army Act of '81, when serving with Her Majesty's regular troops. £30,000 was appropriated for this purpose. 63 Vict. No. 1627 appropriated £35,000 for the purposes of a second Contingent; 63 Vict. No. 1656 appropriated £30,000 for a third Contingent; 64 Vict. No. 1698 appropriated £45,000 for further Contingents. 63 Vict. No. 1640 authorized contributions by Municipal Councils, banks, and other bodies towards military Contingents, or any members thereof, or their relatives, or in aid of the Patriotic Fund.

Camp Of Instruction.

The Camp of Instruction where the various Contingents were stationed, under Colonel Otter and other selected and experienced officers and staff-sergeants, prior to being despatched to the theatre of war, was at Langwarrin. There the men, after having been tested and enrolled, were drilled, trained, organized, disciplined, clothed, equipped, and supplied with horses. When the celerity with which the battalions were raised and sent away is considered, it may readily be judged that more than ordinarily strenuous exertions •must have been made by all concerned, including the Commissary and Veterinary Departments and the embarkation officers, whose duty it was to see that all was in readiness on board the transports.

Not a great deal of instruction was required for the earlier Contingents, because the officers and men were mostly drawn from the local regiments ; but in the case of the Bushmen's and successive battalions, usually several weeks became necessary to make something like soldiers of these very raw levies before they could be embarked for the front.

No horses were brought back from South Africa. Contingents handed them over into Remount depots prior to embarkation for Australia.

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Boer War - Western Australia, Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902, Roll of Honour

Citation: Boer War - Victoria, Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902, Outline

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Wednesday, 29 October 2003

Boer War - Victoria, Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902, Details
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Boer War - Victoria

Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902

Details

CONTINGENT	DEPARTED	RETURNED

1st Victorian Mounted Infantry	October 28, 1899	December 4, 1900
2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles	January 13, 1900	December 4, 1901
3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen	March 10, 1900	June 6, 1901
4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen	May 1, 1900	July 12, 1901
5th Victorian Mounted Rifles	February 15, 1901	April 25 & 26, 1902
Marquis of Tullibardine's Scottish Horse - Recruits	February 15, 1901
2nd Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Victoria)	February 12, 1902	August 2, 1902
Commonwealth Army Medical Corps (VIC)	February 12, 1902
4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Victoria)	March 26, 1902	July - August 1902
6th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (Victoria)	May 19, 1902	August 7, 1902

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Sunday, 26 October 2003

Boer War - Victoria, Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902, Roll of Honour
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Boer War, 1899 - 1902

Australian Forces

Roll of Honour

Victoria

Poppies on the Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra

The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men known to have served at one time with the Victorian forces and gave their lives in service of Australia, whether as part of the Victorian forces or another unit during the Boer War.

Roll of Honour

Marmaduke W ATKINSON, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.

Robert BARBOUR, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Stanley John BARNARD, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Edwin Charles Matthew BAWDEN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Ernest Henry BLANDFORD, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
George William BOLDING, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Louis BOND, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Henry John BOXALL, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Reginald Stephen Robert Stapylton BREE, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Herbert BRENT, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
George Edwin BRISTOW, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Alfred George Kernan BUCKINGHAM, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Albert Edward BURLEY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
George Rowland BUTTON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.

F H CAUGHEY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John CHARLTON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John George CHRISP, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
James William CHRISTIE, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Walter Ernest CLARK, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
James COLLINS, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John COSTELLO, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Arthur Edward COULSON, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Sydney Richard COULTER, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
William John CREELMAN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
John Wyllie CRIGHTON, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
George James CULLEN, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.

Albert Benjamin DAVIDSON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Frederick George DOW, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
S W DUDLEY, 6th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse, Victoria.

George Albert EDDY, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.

Thomas Barham FOSTER, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
George William FRANCIS, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.

Alex George GILPIN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Carlyon GLINN, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Charles John GOEBEL, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Herbert John GOODMAN, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Laurence James Watt GOUDIE, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Neil GRANT, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.

Harry HADLEY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Henry HARRISON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Robert Glenn HARRISON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
William James HEALY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Herbert Henry HENDY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John Smith HESKETH, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Herbert Vincent HEWINS, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Henry James HISCOCK, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
William Fleming HOPKINS, 1st Australian Regiment (Medical Staff), Vic.
Albert HOUGHTON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John Francis HOULIHAN, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John Stephen HURST, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

William Walter JAMES, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Frederick Guin JEFFREYS, 4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse, Victoria.
Alfred Gresham JOHNSTON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
A JONES, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Jephthah JONSON, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

John KELLY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John KILEY, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Oscar David KING, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Geroge Henry KNOTT, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Edwin KNOX, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Henry Spencer LAMB, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John James LAWRENCE, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.

Archibald Edward MACK, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Archibald MACKENZIE, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Thomas Henry MAHONEY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
William David MAYS, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
John Bernard MCCANN, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John Irwin MCCARTNEY, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
James MCCLURE, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
John MCCORKELL, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Michael Terence MCDONALD, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John MCGOWAN, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Charles MCKINNON, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
John MCNALLY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Thomas Peter MOHAN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Charles MOORE, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Arthur Edward MURPHY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.

Henry NEWLANDS, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Charles William NORTON, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Samuel Joseph OLIVER, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Herbert Appleton PALMER, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
William PETTY, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
James Llewellyn POWELL, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
David Hamilton PRUDEN, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Thomas Henry RAGGETT, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
James RANKIN, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Edward Alexander REISENANER, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
James Clark ROBERTS, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Robert Patrick Norton ROBERTSON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Thomas Joel ROSE, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
A ROSS, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
D ROSS, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Thomas Scott ROSS, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Ernest James ROWE, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John Laurence RYAN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Robert Westrup SALMON, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Herbert Albert SEALEY, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Percy Callan SEYMOUR, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Duncan William SMALL, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Henry James SMART, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
James Anderson SMITH, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
William Alexander SMITH, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
William SOULTRY, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Albert Edward SPOWART, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Eugene Boling Broke ST JOHN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Thomas STOCK, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
George William STRATTON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Frank SUTTIE, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
John Campbell Duncan McPherson SWAN, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Rupert Melbourne THORNTON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Frederick Beal THORPE, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Richard TOPHAM, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.

E A VALPIED, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Charles VAUGHAN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Victor Oak WAKLEY, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Henry Oliver WALFORD, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Robert Alfred WATSON, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
John WHELAN, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
James Edwin WHITE, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Charles E WILLIAMS, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
James William Nicholas WILLIAMSON, 3rd Victorian Imperial Bushmen.
Albert Herbert WILLSON, 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry.
Andrew Thomas WOODMAN, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Thomas YATES, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen.

Lest We Forget

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Citation: Boer War - Victoria, Contingents sent, 1899 - 1902, Roll of Honour

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