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Australians
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Full Record
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 | | RAGGATT |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Thomas Henry |
| Regimental Number | | 405 |
| Rank | | Shoeing Smith |
| Unit Name | | 3rd Victorian Bushmen |
| State | | Vic |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: died in Pretoria on 3.1.1901 from enteric.
Price1: War Memorials Ballarat Canberra.
Melb. Leader: farmer from Nati? Vic., photo.
HAGSOC: Memorial Pretoria.
B5177: farmer aged 21.
B5179: born 1878 a farmer from Natimuk via Horsham Vic.
McIlvena: from Natimuk Vic., born in Strathalbyn 1879, grave in Pretoria Military Cemetery.
URL2: Farrier ?RAGGITT FH 350 on grave marker in Pretoria cemetery.
URL3: died at Pretoria of enteric, grandparents from Strathalbyn where spent boyhood before moving to Natimuk with parents, assistant veterinary surgeon and shoeing smith when not active, took bullets through water bottle and sleeve but not hit, died in hospital in Pretoria.
URL4: To-day [11.1.1901] the Lieutenant-Governor received a cablegram from South Africa announcing that Shoeing-smith TH RAGGATT, of the Third (Bushmen's) Contingent, died at Pretoria on 3.1.1901 of enteric fever. He was a single man, and hailed from Natimuk.
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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) 30
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
McIlvena: Wimmera-Mallee Volunteers to the Boer War page(s) 182
Droogleever: That Ragged Mob - 3VB & 4VIB page(s) 115, 128, 167, 490, 522
S. Argus: Southern Argus (Port Elliot) newspaper date(s) 17.1.1901
GeelongAdv.: Geelong Advertiser newspaper date(s) 14.1.1901
| | External Link URL1 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php | | External Link URL2 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/za01700.php | | External Link URL3 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article96949216 | | External Link URL4 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147711259 |
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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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