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Australians
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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 | | KILSBY |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Albert John |
| Regimental Number | | 454 |
| Rank | | Corporal |
| Unit Name | | 5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen |
| State | | SA |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: Sergeant.
Newbury1: 1SAMR.
Source:# 765 1939 obituary said mentioned in despatches at the battle of Graspan.
Register: Reitz fight ... No.2 Troop, E half-squadron and a few of the 6th Mounted Infantry were the first to be rushed by 300 mounted Boers...pure carnage...Cpl. A. J KILSBY, E half-Squadron, mentioned for conspicuous bravery.
URL1: farmer aged 31 born in Mt Gambier SA, next of kin brother Henry Walter KILSBY Mt. Gambier.
Source:# 812 Queen's South Africa medal and 5 clasps.
URL2: returned per 'Columbian' 5.1902.
URL3: Mr. AJ KILSBY, a Boer War veteran and Great War ex-service man, died in the Adelaide Hospital after a long illness. A wreath was forwarded from the Mt. Gambier Sub-Branch, through League Headquarters, and a representative attended the funeral at West Terrace.
URL4: discharged in S. Africa.
URL5: The troopship Manchester Merchant with returning Australian soldiers of the 5th and 6th Contingents from South Africa arrived at Albany yesterday [22.4.1902]. Sergeant-Major R WHITE, of Mil Lei (who left here a corporal), telegraphed yesterday to Sergeant HARRINGTON as follows "All the Mount Gambier men are on board except KILSBY, EWENS and CAVANAGH."
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 369
Newbury1: South Australians and the South African War page(s) 21
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 765
Register: The Register newspaper South Australia 22.7.1901
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 812
Ad. Advertiser: Adelaide Advertiser newspaper date(s) 9.5.1902
BorderW: Mount Gambier Border Watch newspaper date(s) 23.4.1902 & 1.2.1940
Chronicle: Chronicle newspaper Adelaide SA date(s) 3.5.1902
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