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Murray: Drafts died 19.12.1901.
URL2: JONES HT a Mudgee NSW volunteer.
URL3: ?Cpl. JONES HY NSWMR on memorial in Bloemfontein Cemetery.
URL4: Cpl. HT JONES 3rd NSW Mounteds died of enteric at Bloemfontein.
URL5: Constable HT JONES, stationed in Lismore NSW several years ago, died in South Africa of ?enteric recently [c3.1902].
URL6: Mr. Robert JONES, the late member for Mudgee, has to mourn the death of his son, Corporal Hugh Trevor JONES, attached to the Imperial Bushmen, South Africa.
URL7: Alderman AF CAMERON, Mayor of Mudgee NSW, has received a cheque for £50 from the Executive of the Patriotic Fund to hand to Mrs JONES, mother of the late Corpora! Hugh JONES, who died recently [c3.1902] in South Africa from enteric fever.
URL8: A cable from South Africa [c1.1902] announces the deaths of TS OLDHAM, Oswald Saunders PITT, and Hugh Trevor JONES, all of the New South Wales forces.
URL9: URL3: UNVEILING THE PATRIOTIC MEMORIAL. DEMONSTRATION AT LISMORE. The memorial to the district soldiers who lost their lives during the late South African war was unveiled at Lismore on Wednesday, 1st October [1902], in the presence of fully 3000 people, representing every centre of the district. ... The memorial, which is of handsome design, consists of a sandstone base surmounted by a granite column (to which two arc lights are attached), on which the bronze figure of a Lancer stands. Appropriate inscriptions appear on the four squares of the base as follow - On the Keen Street face (south side) - 'Heroes who gave their lives for the Empire. FB BURGESS, D BLACK, L FETTING, H GAGGIN, J JONES, J MATHESON, PK MCNAMMARRA, EC OGLE. Woodlark Street face (west side) - Erected by the people of the Richmond River to commemorate the part taken in the South African war by citizen soldiers of the district. Hostilities began 10th October, 1899. Peace proclaimed 2nd June, 1902. Gloria Fortitas. Keen Street face (north side) - Branches of the service represented at the front. 53 NSW Lancers, 13 Scottish Rifles, 5 Reservists, 76 Civilians. Names of all combatants from the district, with particulars of service, appear on a scroll in the Town Hall. Woodlark Street face (east side) - Engagements in which our soldiers distinguished themselves. Belmont, Grasspan, Modder River, Magersfontein, Arundel, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Drefontein, Bloemfontein, Doornkop, Diamond Hill, Burbeton, Ermolo.
URL10: NEW SOUTH WALES TßOOPERS. The Premier is in receipt of the following telegram from Capetown - "LEVI, John James, Capetown Highlandors, was accidentally killed at Honeynest Kloof on December 16. "Death from enteric at Bloemfontein, December 19, Third New South Wiles Mounted Infantry, No 2763, Corporal Hugh Trevor JONES. "Dangerously ill of enteric fever at Pretoria, December 16 Second New South Wales Mounted Infantry, Leslie Reginald HOPKINSON "The following casualty is reported from Vicanz, on December 13, Third New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent, killed, No 2211, T S OLDHAM. "Death from enteric fever at Wynberg, December 18, Third New South Wales Mounted Infantry, No 891, Oswald Saunders PITT".
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