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Surname KOCH
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) George Hilfers
Regimental Number
RankLieutenant
Unit Name 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
StateQld
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)

Murray: Queen's South Africa medal and 5 clasps.
B5172: next of kin in South Brisbane Qld.
URL2: Major FBTW KOCH had two sons in the South African war, serving as officers.
URL3: PEACE CELEBRATION BRISBANE DEMONSTRATION [27.6.1902] ... Behind these again were about 50 returned contingenters, easily distinguishable by their hats, together with the following returned South African officers — namely, Captain CARTER, Lieutenant G KOCH, Lieutenants BOLAND, ANDERSON and NEILSON and Sergeant-Major BYRNE. This portion of the procession, unimposing enough, no doubt, to the outward eye, nevertheless attracted great attention on all sides, and the thoughts that surged through the spectators' minds as they strode stolidly along in the midst of the gayer portions of the imposing pageant could easily he discerned by the hearty cheers which heralded their advent throughout the whole line of march.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 491 492
Fogg: 5th Contingent Qld. Imperial Bushmen in South Africa 1901-02 page(s) 2
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 13.9.1902
Bne. Tele.: Brisbane Telegraph newspaper date(s) 28.6.1902
External Link URL1www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL2nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19192394
External Link URL3nla.gov.au/nla.news-article175169281


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Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.
 
Colin Roe
Canberra

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