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Australians
in the Boer War
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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.
| Surname | | JONSON |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Jephthah |
| Regimental Number | | 381 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen |
| State | | Vic |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: Jepthah, killed in action at Hartbeetsfontein on 18.2.1901.
Price1: War Memorials Bairnsdale Canberra Ballarat & Sale.
B5179: born 1877 a stock rider from Hospital Ck. via Cunninghame Gippsland Vic.
Source:# 794 Orbost Volunteers to South African War memorial plaque in Yarra Glen RSL, killed in action at Hartebeestfontein South Africa 18.2.1900.
URL2: given name may have been Eipleltia (not Johannes or Jephthat), stockrider born 1877, next of kin father at Hospital Ck. via Cunninghame Vic.
URL3: Jephthah, Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
Droogleever: 'Jeff'.
URL4: Orbost Thursday [6.6.1901] At a public meeting on Wednesday evening, at which Mr. James CAMERON JP presided, it was decided to erect a memorial in Orbost in honour of the Australian soldiers who have fallen in South Africa, and to inscribe thereon the names of Privates AT WOODMAN and J JONSON, at one time residents of this district.
URL5: Mr A MCLEAN MHR, performed the ceremony of unveiling [the memorial at Bairnsdale c6.1903]. THE INSCRIPTIONS. WEST FACE - Lance-Corpl. WD MAYS, Bairnsdale; Private AT WOODMAN, Bairnsdale; Private R MCGREGOR, Lindenow; Private HO WALFORD, Bulumwaal. NORTH FACE - Private AH WILSON, Sale; Private MM ATKINTON, Sale; Private H LAMB, Sale; Private J RANKIN, Sale; Private FH CAUGNEY, Iguana Creek. SOUTH FACE - Corporal J MCGOWAN, Warragul; Private JW CRIGHTON, Warragul; Private TJ ROSE, Morwell; Private GW BOLDING, Morwell; Private AB DAVIDSON, Moe. EAST FACE - Sergeant DH PRUDEN, Newry; Sergeant MT MCDONALD, Yinnar; Private J MCCLURE, Won Wron; Private J JONSON, Hospital Creek; Private EA VALPIED, Toora.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 268 336
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 40
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 157
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 794
B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418
Droogleever: That Ragged Mob - 3VB & 4VIB page(s) 278, 323/324, 328, 605
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 10.6.1901
Morwell Adv.: Morwell Advertiser newspaper date(s) 19.6.1903
| | External Link URL1 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php | | External Link URL2 | | naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=446020&I=1&SE=1 | | External Link URL3 | | bwm.org.au/site/Jephthah_Jonson.php | | External Link URL4 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10554930 | | External Link URL5 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65880640 |
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