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Murray: 'B'Coy. dangerously wounded at Sanna's Post invalided to Australia arrived 1.6.1900.
B5172: Yerrongpilly Qld.
URL1: returned wounded per 'Moravian' arrived Brisbane 1.6.1900 discharged 7.7.1900 to Yerrongpilly.
URL4: Perhaps Private Charles STRONG, of the Queensland Mounted Rifles, had the strangest experience. He was in action near Paardeberg. The Boers held a strong position, and the British troops had found it necessary to retire. He was riding at a distance of about five hundred yards from the enemy when his leg involuntarily flew up, almost striking him in the face. He made sure he had been hit on the heel, but after going another hundred yards he began to feel a burning thirst. A faintness came over him, and a mate stopped to give him water. Then it was discovered that he had been shot through the back, so close to the spine that the shock of the bullet caused the nerves to work the leg in the way described. The bullet passed through the liver and stomach and came out below the fifth rib, For four weeks he lived on a glass of port wine and a biscuit a day. On Thursday he was able to take a turn up town when the Moravian arrived.
URL5: ?Pte. C STRONG QMR returned per 'Moravian' 5.1900, shot through back, liver and stomach at Paardeberg almost kicking himself in face as result, then lived on glass of port and a biscuit a day for 4 weeks.
URL6: The Relatives and Friends of the late Charles Joseph STRONG (late Boer War veteran) are invited to attend his Funeral, to move from the Methodist Church. Beaudesert Qld., at 4 pm 18.7.1952. Members of the Nerang sub-branch of the RSSAILA are also invited to attend.
URL8: photo on return per 'Moravian'.
URL9: Qld. Mounted Rifles invalids per 'Moravian' at Melbourne 24.5.1900 - Private STRONG who was shot through the stomach in tbe action near Paardberg.
URL10: 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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