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Murray: formerly Special Service Officer, Major 17.4.1901, OC 5QIB 1.8.1901, Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 25.4.1902, Distinguished Service Order, Queen's South Africa medal and 5 clasps King's South Africa medal and 2 clasps.
Wallace1: Major
Fogg: diaries, captured at Onverwacht 4.1.1902, WW1 New Guinea.
B5172: next of kin in Charters Towers Qld.
URL1: died 1955.
URL3: Major FW TOLL, of Charters Towers Qld., has arrived at Brisbane [c8.1903] after spending about 12 months in South Africa. He takes a gloomy view of the industrial position of the country. He advises men to 'hang off' there unless they are prepared to pay their way for two or three months, and probably more. Everything has gone down, Mr. TOLL says; cost of living there is very high. All
laborers without trades are advised to stay away, as wages are coming down. (more).
URL5: Major F TOLL, who has been the guest of Captain DODDS, at Union Street, Nundah, during the past four weeks [c7.1902], left last week for Sydney and Melbourne. He will thence proceed to South Africa by the Australasian.
URL6: Several dreary weeks of trekking on the Amersfont road followed before the column reached Onverwacht, where a big fight was made with 900 Boers. The casualties in PLUMER's column in this engagement were nineteen killed, and thirty-seven wounded. Major VALENTINE, commanding the corps, was among the slain, and Captain JOHNSON of the Scottish Imperial Yeomanry, while several Queenslanders also fell, including Sergeants BERRY and POWER (the latter being mentioned in despatches for coolness and daring in action) and SHANNON, privates CHARDON, SALT, MACFARLANE and LILLEY, while Captain CARTER and Lieutenant HIGGINSON were severely wounded. It was in this engagement that Major TOLL displayed that special bravery that caused his name to be mentioned in the London "Gazette" for bravery and coolness in leadership. Company-Sergeant KNYVETT and Reg.-Sergeant Major PRICE being also mentioned for coolness. Major TOLL was himself too modest to tell our representative much of his own doings, but the other officers speak in the highest terms of his leadership. "Don't forget," said one of them, "to say that we all call TOLL 'The Fighting Major.'"
URL7: London, April 26 [1902]. The following colonial officers have been brought under the favourable notice of Lord KITCHENER for conspicuous good service rendered towards the end of 1901 and the early portion of the present year. Second New South Wales Contingent - Captain F LYDIARD and Lieut. C DICEY. Third New South Wales Contingent - Lieut. H FORTESCUE. West Australian Fifth Contingent - Captain AJ BROWN. West Australian Sixth Contingent - Lieut. SR CLIFTON and Lieut. PJ DALY. Fifth Queensland Contingent - Major F OLD, Sergt.-Major F KNYVETT and Sergt. J POWER. The last-named officer was killed. Sixth Queensland Contingent - Lieut. CR VAUGHAN. ... Lord KITCHENER mentions in recent despatches the resolute and capable way in which Major TOLL led his South Australian Bushmen on four occasions; Sergeant-Major WASSON of the Second New South Wales Contingent for his dash in holding a kopje with four men in order to cover the retirement of the wounded ...
URL8: Major Fred TOLL, who has been serving with the Australian forces in South Africa for the second time since the outbreak of war, has wired his father, Mr. Ben TOLL, that he is returning to Australia by the transport which left Capetown on Wednesday last [26.3.1902] in charge of the returning members of the fifth Queensland Contingent.
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