| Surname | | MCFARLANE |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Sidney Colin |
| Regimental Number | | 77 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 2nd West Australia Mounted Infantry |
| State | | WA |
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Murray: MCFARLANE Sydney Collin, slightly wounded at Vet R. 5.5.1900.
B5165: specially enrolled.
Newbury1: MACFARLANE Sydney Colin 2WAMI & 6SAIB.
URL1: Sydney Colin a mercantile manager aged 28 from SA.
URL3: Lieut. SC MCFARLANE 6SAIB promoted to Captain vice CORNISH resigned 5.12.1901.
Source:# 1313 Capt. MCFARLANE DSO returned to Aust. at end of war and then emigrated back to S. Africa where he was caught up in the Bambatha Rebellion of 1906 and killed not far from Eshowe in the Mome Gorge on 10.6.1906, photo of headstone in Eshowe.
URL4: Capt. S. MCFARLANE DSO Commanding Transvaal Rifles killed by shot through heart at Mome Gorge, First SA Contingent in Boer War recently farming in ORC.
URL5: Aust. officer killed, Capt. S MACFARLANE DSO, Transvaal Mounted Rifles commanding the Johannesburg Mounted Volunteer Contingent.
URL6: Capt. MCFARLANE killed, a native of Port Lincoln SA who went to S. Africa as Tpr. in WA Contingent, commission and DSO for bravery at Groote Vlei during Boer War.
URL7: Capt. SC MCFARLANE DSO, son of DM MCFARLANE of Malvern, killed 9.6.1906, photo [poor quality].
URL8: Capt. MCFARLANE DSO, killed in Natal fighting the Zulus, many well know relatives in S. Aust.
Ad. Advertiser: family death notice, Capt. Sidney Colin MCFARLANE DSO killed in action in Natal 10.6.1906 aged 29.
URL9: 2003 photo of grave memorial to Capt. Sidney Colin MCFARLANE DSO in Eshowe Main Cemetery.
URL10: obituary.
Source:# 1316 SC MCFARLANE DSO amongst 17 Old Scholars of Hahndorf College SA commemorated on an Honour Roll/Tablet originally located at the College in 1904 but now displayed in the Hahndorf Institute., MCFARLANE was active in marking and tending Aust. war graves in S. Africa for the S. African Graves Fund, is said to have probably been hit by friendly fire in 1906 by pushing too far ahead in the early dawn.
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| Source References | |
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 406
B5165: National Archives of Australia series B5165
Newbury1: South Australians and the South African War page(s) 24
West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 29.1.1900
Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 19.3.1900
Register: The Register newspaper South Australia 13.2.1902 & 12 & 13.6.1906
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1313
Albany Adv.: Albany Advertiser newspaper date(s) 13.6.1906
Chronicle: Chronicle newspaper Adelaide SA date(s) 16.6.1906
PortP.Rec: Port Pirie Recorder newspaper date(s) 13.6.1906
Ad. Advertiser: Adelaide Advertiser newspaper date(s) 13 & 22.6.1906
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1316
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