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Murray: initials HE, died 24.6.1902.
B5207: grocer aged 24 from Broken Hill NSW.
URL2: Herbert E joined 26.3.1902.
B4418: Herbert Edward Boer War dossier.
URL3: ?STUBB EC.
URL4: at Newcastle, 3rd Australian Commonwealth Regiment, New South Wales unit. No. 1529 H LOCK, peritonitis.
URL5: The death is announced c7.1902 of Private HE LOCKE of the New South Wales unit of the Commonwealth Horse, at Newcastle (Natal) from peritonitis. Deceased was a son of Mr. ?? LOCKE recently of Dunster Park, near Casino NSW.
URL6: Mr. JG LOCKE, of Byron Bay NSW, states [c7.1902] that the reported death of his son, Private HE LOCKE of the Commonwealth Horse, in South Africa is incorrect.
URL7: Sergeant HOGG, who left Sydney as a lance corporal with the Third Commonwealth Horte in March [1902] and saw brief service in South Africa just before peace waa declared, returned to Broken Hill on Tuesday morning [16.9.1902]. He was a passenger by the notorious Drayton Grange, but was fortunate enough to escape the sickness that prostrated so many of his comrades. Before leaving Sydney he became attached to the same battalion as that in which the late HE LOCK, also of Broken Hill), was a trooper, and they sailed together in the Manhattan. The contingent landed at Durban, and the men were at once sent by train to Newcastle, and from there to Buffalo River, and were then ordered to Volksrust, where they first sighted the Boers. This was about four days before the declaration of peace, and the contingent had not a chance of going under fire. It was on the journey back to Newcastle that Trooper LOCK met with the injuries from which he afterwards died. Sergeant HOGG was ordered to take the fourth troop, to which LOCK was attached, to water their horses at a spruit halt a mile outside the camp at Newcastle, and in order to rejoin the main body the horses were put to the gallop. In jumping an obstacle in the road, LOCK's horse got its foot in a hole and turned a complete somersault, coming down on top of its rider, who was terribly crushed. LOCK died in the Newcastle hospital next day after undergoing two operations.
URL8: Private HE LOCKE, of the New South
Wales unit of the Commonwealth Contingent, his died at Newcastle, in Natal,
from peritonitis.
URL9: AN ERRONEOUS REPORT. Mr. JG LOCKE, of Byron Bay, writes [c7.1902] pointing out that the reported death of his eldest son, Private HE LOCKE, of the Commonwealth Horse in South Africa, is incorrect. The only way one can account for the rumour, says Mr LOCKE, is that when his son was shot through the neck at Klerksdorp, all his valuables that were on him were taken by the Boers, amongst them being a letter case and pocket book with name or monogram inscribed. These contained papers with his number etc., and when the convoys were re-captured they may have been found on one of the Boers, and thus the mistake would arise. Mr. LOCKE adds that the coat his son was
wearing at the time he was wounded has just come to light, and is being forwarded home. We are very pleased to learn that the report proves unfounded.
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