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Murray: killed 16.5.1901 at Venterspruit.
URL2: labourer aged 35 born in Melbourne Vic., next of kin wife Melina Murray SCHUMANN Adelaide.
Source:# 1066 listed on memorial in Frankfort cemetery.
URL4: QM Sergt. OF SCHUMANN, memorial St. Peter's Cathedral Adelaide SA.
URL5: family death notice, killed in action aged 35.
PADN&FC: The Departed Brave. Sunday, 19.9.1909 was a memorable tho' sad day to many who attended the Memorial Service to the soldiers from South Australia who died in South Africa during the Boer War. There was a mammoth gathering to witness the ceremony, at the Memorial Statute in Adelaide on the occasion. The following is the Roll Call of the South Australian heroes who lost their lives. First Contingent. Surgeon-Mjr. TOLL, Lieut. POWELL, Cpls. HEINJUS and KLAFFER, Tprs. SMITH and MATHEWS. Second Contingent. Lieut. GORDON, Tptr. MARSHALL, Tprs. BARTLETT, MARSDEN, and HARDY. Third Contingent. Capt. HUBBE, Cpl. CURRIE, Tprs. MILLMAN and SLOAN. Fourth Contingent. Sgt. MCCABE, Saddler MITCHELL, Tptr. DAVIS, Tprs. PROSSER, MOORE, NICHOLAS, PAGE, HONNER, PALMER, GOODES, WOODHAM, LANDSELL and TOTHILL. Fifth Contingent. Capt. HIPWELL Reg. Sgt.-Mjr. MCGILLIVRAY, QMS SCHUMANN, Sgts. HAMILTON, RUST, and MERCER. Cpl. WHITE, Lce.-Cpl. HAMP, Tprs. GIBB, WHITTLE, MAY, HORSEFALL, GLUYAS, COCHRANE, HIRTH, VICKERY and SIMMONS. Sixth Contingent. Sgt. MURRIE, Lce.-Cpl BARRON, Tprs. BENNIER, WALTER, EWINS, MARSHALL, CROFT, MAIN, TEATE and BEARE. 2nd Australian Commonwealth Horse. Tprs. BROWNLEY, SPILLANE and TAEUBER.
Roe: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record at bwm.org.au/site/Otto_Schumann.php.
Evg. Jnl.: We had a warm time at Taffel Kop on May 7 [1901], where Qmr. SCHUMANN was shot. He had lost one of his mules, and went out to look for it unarmed, and wandering a little too far was shot by a Boer sniper.
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