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Australians
in the Boer War
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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 | | MCGOWAN |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | John Paterson |
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| Unit Name | | Montmorency's Scouts |
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Extracts and Comments
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URL1: Terowie SA-born JP 'Jack' MCGOWAN, a Boer War hero and actor before stumbling into films around 1912, went on to become one of Hollywood's first stunt directors.
URL2: 'Jack' born 1880 in Terowie SA, grew up in Adelaide and Sydney NSW a capable horserider he served in the Second Boer War with Montmorency's Scouts as a special dispatch rider, recruited from S. Africa to the US to take part in a Boer War exhibit at the 1904 World's Fair he then began working in live theatre and in 1910 on the screen. Subsequently, JP MCGOWAN as he was usually known, became a pioneering Hollywood actor and film director, occasionally too a screenwriter and stunt actor and remains the only Australian made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild. He died in 1952 in Hollywood USA and is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery at Glendale California.
URL4: not found in WO127 Montmorency's Scouts roll extract.
URL5: not found on the Montmorency's Scouts Roll at angloboerwar.com.
Source:# 1574 An image of a Queens' South Medal suspender carrying 6 clasps (Tug.Hts, RoL, LNek, Belf., OFS & CC), but medal itself is out of sight, plus images of a King's South Africa Medal (with clasps SA01 & SA02) renamed to *2 JP McGOWAN and *ORENCY'S SCOUTS.
Roe: Tpr. JP MCGOWAN of Montmorency's Scouts not found on the Trove (Australian Newspapers site), only possibly John PP MCGOWAN, of the NSW Railways Permanent Way Branch amongst those attached to NSW Army Medical Corps c1.1900.
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Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1367 Souce: 1574
Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 4.1.1900
| | External Link URL1 | | www.abc.net.au/tv/stuntlove/australian-stunt-history-a1.htm | | External Link URL2 | | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._P._McGowan | | External Link URL3 | | www.facebook.com/pages/JP-McGowan/108208035880336 | | External Link URL4 | | www.britishmedals.us/files/127montmorency.htm | | External Link URL5 | | www.angloboerwar.com/south-african-units/431-montmorencys-scouts-?start=1 | | External Link URL6 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14249794 |
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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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