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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 SWAN
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) John Campbell Duncan McPherson
Regimental Number 584
RankPrivate
Unit Name 3rd Victorian Bushmen
StateVic
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
Murray: died on 28.5.1900 at Umtali of malaria.
Price1: War Memorials Ballarat Canberra.
Kopje: photo, one of four brothers who served in S. Africa.
Melb. Leader: station manager c/- PO Purnim via Warrnambool Vic., photo.
B5177: station manager aged 23.
B5179: born 1877 a station manager c/- Purnim PO via Warrnambool Vic.
Source:# 987 one of 5 SWAN brothers who served in S. Africa.
URL2: family in memoriam notice.
URL3: died of enteric at Marandellas c6.1900.
URL6: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
URL7: A cablegram was received yesterday from Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington, in command of the Rhodosian Field Force, stating that Private John CDM SWAN died at Umtali, Rhodesia, on 26.5.1900 of melancholia. Deceased was 23 years of age and unmarried. He is described in the official list as having been a station manager.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 250 336
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 34
Reay: Australians at War - with the Australian Regiment page(s) 375
Kopje: ABWSGoA journal The Kopje date(s) 3.2002
Melb. Leader: Melbourne Leader newspaper date(s) 10.3.1900
B5177: National Archives of Australia series B5177
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 987
Droogleever: That Ragged Mob - 3VB & 4VIB page(s) 72, 497, 523
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 13.6.1900 & 27.5.1901
West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 11.6.1900
Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 8.6.1900
External Link URL1www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10552361
External Link URL3nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23837405
External Link URL4nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10556114
External Link URL5nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9544379
External Link URL6bwm.org.au/site/John_Swan.php
External Link URL7nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14316556


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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