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Australians
in the Boer War
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Full Record
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 | | LAWSON |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | George |
| Regimental Number | | 102 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| State | | Qld |
Extracts and Comments
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B5172: next of kin in South Pine Qld.
URL2: Queensland Elections. Colonel CAMERON's defeat for Brisbane was a surprise packet. He has served the electorate well and has preserved the personal touch, but "the swing-over" was irresistible. Mr. George LAWSON, who defeated him, is secretary of the Road Transport Workers Union, and one of the Labor moderates. He visited Geneva in connection with the League of Nations as a representative of the Australian Labor movement. He is one of a well-known farming family, and at 18 years of age went off with a bushman's contingent to the South African War. ... More.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 495
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1578
Melb. Age: Melbourne Age newspaper date(s) 4.1.1932
| | External Link URL1 | | www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf | | External Link URL2 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203182220 |
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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.
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