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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		SMITH
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Cecil Selwyn
Regimental Number		2058
Rank		Corporal
Unit Name		3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles
State		NSW
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: 'B'Sqn. Sergeant 12.11.1901 died 27.7.1902. Price1: died, War Memorials Ballarat & Canberra. URL1: medals photo, Queen's South Africa medal and 3 clasps, shearer, St. Kilda Vic., died of typhoid in Cape Town aged 32. B5204: shearer born 1870 in St. Kilda Vic. URL3: SELWYN-SMITH died at Maitland commemorated in Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery, memorial photo. URL4: Sgt. 3NSWMR died of enteric at Capetown. URL5: 'B'Sqn. photo #80. URL6: Sergt. 2058 CS SMITH 3NSWMR discharged from hospital to convalescent camp at Kroonstad after rheumatism 2.12.1901.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 128 205 Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 70 B5204: National Archives of Australia series B5204 folder 11A West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 31.7.1902 Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 9.3.1901 Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 17.1.1902
External Link URL1		users.westconnect.com.au/~ianmac5/exhibit6.html
External Link URL2		awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL3		www.roll-of-honour.com/Overseas/MaitlandBoer.html
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24751262
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71464521
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-page1340243

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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