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Murray: Queen's South Africa medal and 3 clasps (Drief. & Jbg.).
B5172: Coorparoo Qld.
URL1: aboard 'Tongariro' from Cape Town for Aust. 31.3.1901.
URL1: age 21 with 1 year 57 days war service returned per 'Tongariro' arrived Brisbane 3.5.1901.
URL4: photo.
URL5: letter dated 7.5.1901 from Kappsche Hoop.
URL6: Veteran Light Horseman, Brigadier RM STODART, commanding officer of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, has been placed on the retired list c4.1940. ... Brigadier Stodart, who is 60, was first comissioned at the age of 18, when he was with the Queensland Mounted Infantry. He fought in the Boer War with the Australian Light Horse and was promoted to captain in 1903 and major in 1908. He entered the Great War as a major with the 2nd Light Horse, and became the unit's commanding officer as lieutenant-colonel. He was appointed to command of the 1st Cavalry Brigade in 1931. Brigadier Stodart's last active service with the 1st Cavalry Brigade, the largest cavalry brigade in Australia, was to control the highly successful three months' training period which finished last week-end after a lone trek from Beaudesert to Caboolture.
URL7: Major WH TUNBRIDGE, Captain WG THOMPSON, Captain JE DODS, Lieutenant R DOWSE, Lieutenant J WALKER, Lieutenant H HARRIS, Lieutenant P GLASGOW, Lieutenant CG ADIE, Lieutenant RM STODART, Lieutenant AF CRICHTON reimbursed by Qld. on behalf of Imperial authorities for loss of chargers. All officers of the fourth, fifth, and sixth contingents have been refused, the War Office replying that the £50 allowance already paid covered the cost of horses, etc.
URL8: The following men [of the Queensland Coronation contingent] returned [c10.1902], under the command of Lieutenant STODART, who went to South Africa with the second Queensland contingent, all of them having been previously on active service in the South African campaign - Sergeant HOCKEY (second contingent), Privates BARNES (third), DESHON (third), DONKIN (third), LAKE (third), LINDLEY (fourth), SHADFORTH (fourth), MISSING (first), LUXTON (fourth), HUTTON (first), SCHEY (second), STRONG (first), CHAMBERLAIN (first), FRENCH (third), and DEACON (third). As already stated in our first edition on Monday, Sergeant WALKER (first contingent) was left behind in order to undergo a course of musketry training.
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