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| Surname | | TYERS |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Egbert William |
| Regimental Number | | 113 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry |
| State | | Vic |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: 1Vic. Infantry Coy.
Reay: invalided per 'Damascus' 26.8.1900.
B5177: farmer aged 19.
B5179: farmer from Ararat Vic.
Smith2: Doyle's Scouts & CC Cycle Corps., King's South Africa Medal and 2 clasps.
URL1: 35287 Pte. enlisted Cape Colony Cycle Corps 8.7.1901 discharged 25.10.1901 time expired.
URL2: welcomed back to Ararat Vic. 31.7.1901.
URL3: Pte. E TYRES invalided per 'Damascus' with enteric.
Ararat Adv.: News from the Front - Private EW TYERS. From a letter dated 15.9.1901, sent to his relatives at Ararat [Vic.] by Private EW TYERS, who some time ago returned to South Africa, we make the following extracts - 'I have been endeavouring to work my way up to Johannesburg, but could not manage it, as no one is allowed up without a permit. I therefore joined the Cycle Corps, in which you only have to sign on for three months at a time, and as I have only three weeks more to complete my time, I will have taken my discharge before this reaches you. I have had a very nasty experience in this corps. I don't know whether you saw an account of a train being held up and burnt at Ganna siding. I had the pleasure of being in that train, but only got a splash on the hand with an explosive bullet. I was in the worst place I have ever been in, and I don't want another like it. There were 30 casualties out of 90. Since that little bit of excitement I have been attached to General French's staff, here you never hear a shot being fired. When I get my discharge I intend going to Kimberley to see how things are there. It is about the best place as far as I can hear, and I gather this knowledge from a young fellow who works there. Cape Town is over-run, and it is nothing else but robberies and murders, on account of there being no work there. It is not even safe to go out at night. I received the gold medal from the citizens of Ararat, it is a handsome trophy and something I can always remember the town of Ararat by. I will write and thank them later when I have time. I will be quite flash with medals if I go on in this way. I hope to get a medal for the Cape Colony troops, which is very much talked about now, but I am not certain of it being given yet. This is a nice little town, but there are a lot of trials of Boer prisoners and a stringing up case now and again, which is done in the opening on the market square, and all the people have to turn out to witness it. I met one of my old comrades of the First Contingent, Jim RULE, he is now sergeant in Scott's Railway Guards in an armoured train.'
Source:# 1353 WO 100/239 QSA Rolls for Cape Colony Cyclist Corps has the following - 35287 Pte. EW TYERS clasp CC, notation previous service Vic. Mtd. Forces, KSA roll eligible for clasp SA01, ineligibility for further crossed out with the notation further service 5VMR and Doyles Aust. Scouts KSA applied for on Doyles roll. Smith's work on Doyles and on KSA lists him and KSA.
URL5: ?1948 Keimoes Village Management Board, sale of land to EW TYERS.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 228
Reay: Australians at War - with the Australian Regiment page(s) 380
B5177: National Archives of Australia series B5177
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
Smith2: Australian KSA Medal Recipients page(s) 24
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 27.8.1900 & 5.8.1901
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1353
Ararat Adv.: Ararat Advertiser newspaper date(s) 15.10.1901
PRO(UK) : National Archives of the United Kingdom - series WO100/239
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