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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		SPIER
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Walter Laishley
Regimental Number		152
Rank		Corporal
Unit Name		New South Wales Citizens' Bushmen
State		NSW
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: died 23.1.1901 at Cape Town. Price1: died of dysentery, War Memorials Ballarat Canberra. B5204: born 1876 Melbourne Vic., a station overseer. URL2: died at Maitland commemorated in Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery, memorial photo. URL3: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record. URL4: 'B'Sqn. photo #72. URL5: Hunter's Hill NSW. URL7: memorial unveiled in All Saints' Church Hunter's Hill NSW on 26.5.1901, to Cpl. WL SPIER NSWB who died of enteric fever in Woodstock Hospital Capetown on 23.1.1901.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 78 204 Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 66 B5204: National Archives of Australia series B5204 Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 17 & 24.2.1900 Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 2.2.1901 Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 28.5.1901
External Link URL1		www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2		www.roll-of-honour.com/Overseas/MaitlandBoer.html
External Link URL3		bwm.org.au/site/Walter_Spier.php
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71376732
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71376441
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21253344
External Link URL7		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14387544

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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