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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 | | PRUDEN |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | David Hamilton |
| Regimental Number | | 404 |
| Rank | | Sergeant |
| Unit Name | | 3rd Victorian Bushmen |
| State | | Vic |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: killed in action on 22.7.1900 at Koster River, War Memorials Bairnsdale Canberra Stratford Ballarat & Sale.
Wilcox: Casualty list.
Source:# 157 Sale Vic.
Reay: killed in action on 21.7.1900.
Melb. Leader: ?bushman photo.
HAGSOC: grave photo Rustenburg.
B5177: bush labourer aged ?20.
B5179: born 1876 a bush labourer c/- Newry PO Gippsland Vic.
URL3: The friends of the late Trooper PRUDEN propose to place a memorial tablet in a Church.
URL4: Mr A MCLEAN MHR, performed the ceremony of unveiling [the memorial at Bairnsdale c6.1903]. THE INSCRIPTIONS. WEST FACE - Lance-Corpl. WD MAYS, Bairnsdale; Private AT WOODMAN, Bairnsdale; Private R MCGREGOR, Lindenow; Private HO WALFORD, Bulumwaal. NORTH FACE - Private AH WILSON, Sale; Private MM ATKINTON, Sale; Private H LAMB, Sale; Private J RANKIN, Sale; Private FH CAUGNEY, Iguana Creek. SOUTH FACE - Corporal J MCGOWAN, Warragul; Private JW CRIGHTON, Warragul; Private TJ ROSE, Morwell; Private GW BOLDING, Morwell; Private AB DAVIDSON, Moe. EAST FACE - Sergeant DH PRUDEN, Newry; Sergeant MT MCDONALD, Yinnar; Private J MCCLURE, Won Wron; Private J JONSON, Hospital Creek; Private EA VALPIED, Toora.
URL5: Before unveiling the Honor Roll [at Stratford c9.1902] the Hon A MCLEAN MH, expressed his pleasure at being present to assist in the ceremony. He was glad to see so many of their returned soldiers present, but he was sure he expressed the views of all who were assembled there that evening when he said they deeply regretted there was one absent - Sergt. DH PRUDEN - who had left these shores never to return, and who had laid down his life in his country's cause. He slept peacefully beneath the green sod of that ill-fated country, which had been drenched by the blood of so many thousands of brave men. He died as a brave soldier should - at his post and in the faithful discharge of his duty. When he (the speaker) looked at the splendid gathering assembled he could not refrain from feeling that their presence that evening was their expression of approval of the action of the brave men who went to fight for their country. (Hear, hear, and applause.)
URL6: STRATFORD'S SOLDIERS. MEMORIAL BRASS AND HONOR ROLL. UNVEILING CEREMONY. DISPLAY OF ENTHUSIASM. Stratford people have the name of being thorough in any object taken in hand, and the ceremony of unveiling the Memorial Brass and Honor Roll on Friday night [12.9.1902] to the local soldiers who served in the late South African war, was an unqualified success, the large hall being crowded to excess. ... The following names are engraved upon the Honor Roll - Chaplain Smith MACBAIN BA, Lieut. WJ COCHRANE, Staff Sergt. W POOLE, Sergt. Major J JONES, Sergt. DH PRUDEN , killed in action at Koster River, Sergt. Jas. A BEECHER, Sergt. H JONES, Sergt. Jas. TWEEDIE, Sadd. Sergt. E HAZLETT, Corpl. Jno. TWEEDIE, Farrier H BEECHER, Trooper A BEECHER, Trooper W BEECHER, Trooper W WEIR, Trooper M KILLEEN and Trooper W KILLEEN. "Honor to whom honor is due."
URL7: STRATFORD. A welcome home concert, at which upwards of 500 people were present, was tendered to Lieutenant COCHRANE, Sergeants J BEECHER and H JONES, and Private W BEECHER in the Mechanics' hall on Thursday night [1.5.1902]. The returned soldiers marched on to the stage escorted by the Stratford detachment of Rangers under Captain LLOYD, the audience standing and singing "Soldiers of the King." Councillor CARTER, Avon Shire, presided, and the men were welcomed home by Captain Rev. Smith MCBAIN and Mr. NS LETT, president of the Avon Council. The proceedings terminated with a display of fireworks and a dance. It in intended to place a brass memorial tablet in the Mechanics' Institute to the
memory of the late Private PRUDEN, and to present each returned soldier from this district with a medal.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 246 336
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 29
Wilcox: National Archives Search Guide - The Boer War page(s) 51
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 157
Reay: Australians at War - with the Australian Regiment page(s) 374
Melb. Leader: Melbourne Leader newspaper date(s) 10.3.1900
HAGSOC: HAGSOC's South African Graves website
B5177: National Archives of Australia series B5177
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
Droogleever: That Ragged Mob - 3VB & 4VIB page(s) 98/99, 102/103, 489, 522
Maffra Sp.: Maffra Spectator newspaper date(s) 22.8.1901 & 15.9.1902
Morwell Adv.: Morwell Advertiser newspaper date(s) 19.6.1903
Trar.Rcd.: Traralgon Record newspaper date(s) 19.9.1902
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 5.5.1902
| | External Link URL1 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php | | External Link URL2 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/grave93.jpg | | External Link URL3 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67417031 | | External Link URL4 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65880640 | | External Link URL5 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64262840 | | External Link URL6 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67419960 | | External Link URL7 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9080436 |
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