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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		RICHARDS
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Frederick Adolphus
Regimental Number		18
Rank		Private
Unit Name		2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		B5172: Bowral NSW. URL1: age 22 returned per 'Tongariro' arrived Brisbane 3.5.1901. Source:# 823 farmed at Tambelup and then Nyangrip Rd Broome Hill, died 1922 at Broome Hill WA aged 44 from a driving accident (horse and buggy). URL3: photo #18. URL4: CCoy. QMI seconded to Transvaal Mounted & Foot Police 19.6.1900 rejoined 1.7.1900. URL5: letter dated 3.3.1900 from Woodville via from Bloemfontein to his mother, Mrs J RICHARDS, of Belmore Park Bowral NSW.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 460 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 823 Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 20.1.1900 Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 21.8.1900 Evg. News: Evening News (Sydney NSW) date(s) 11.6.1900
External Link URL1		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=686356&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL2		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL3		nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2518479
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19036091
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113715980

Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


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.

 

Colin Roe
Canberra

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