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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		LEASK
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		John
Regimental Number
Rank		Lieutenant
Unit Name		3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: severely wounded at Koster R. 22.7.1900, hit early in the day but would not quit his post until fight was over, died of wounds and pneumonia at Pretoria 20.8.1900. Source:# 22 War Memorial Brisbane. B5172: Goomburrum Bundaberg Qld. URL2: wounded near Kosks River Pretoria 21.7.1900 died 20.8.1900. URL5: born 1865 in Aberdeen Scot. settled in Maryborough then Bundaberg Qld. URL5: Lieut. LEASK Qld. severely wounded at Kosco R. 21.7.1900. URL6: Lieut. LEASK succumbed to typhoid fever at Pretoria c24.8.1900. Source:# 1259 born 1.2.1865 at Ellon Aberdeen Scot., Queen Victoria sent condolences to his parents and asked for his photo. URL7: spent 5 years with 1st. Vol. Bn. Gordon Highlanders, migrated to Maryborough Qld. in 1888.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 463 464 465 466 541 Wallace1: The Australians at the Boer War page(s) 256 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 22 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1259 Rockh. Bull.: Rockhampton Morning Bulletin date(s) 30.7 & 27.8.1900 West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 27.8.1900
External Link URL1		www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2		glosters.tripod.com/BoerL.htm
External Link URL3		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL4		www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/memq0001.php
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18540263
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23842637
External Link URL7		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52581928

Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


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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