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B5172: next of kin in Woolloongabba Qld.
URL2: remained in S. Africa for further service when 5QIB returned to Aust.
URL3: The relatives and friends of Mrs. C WALDEN of 18 Rosecliffe Street Highgate Hill, Mr. and Mrs. A SIEFERT, Mr. and Mrs. CB ROBERTS are invited to attend the funeral or her beloved husband their father, father-in-law Charles Ernest WALDEN late Boer War veteran, to leave after service commencing at 11:15 9.1.1952 for the South Brisbane Cemetery.
Source:# 1487 from a grand son - Charles Ernest WALDEN, Address 18 Rosecliffe St. Highgate Hill Brisbane - left to go to Boer War in March 1901, Boer War service - with 5th Qld. Imperial Bushman Reg no 147 Private, died Jan 1952. Medal entitlement per medal rolls - Queen's South African Medal (QSA) with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902,
noted as returning to Australia 8.4.1902 on medal roll (ie about 9 days after arrival of main body,) despite being marked as staying on for further service. On their arrival he had been noted as remaining in S. Africa for further service.
URL4: The following Queenslanders, who arrived from South Africa in the Columbia, reached Brisbane by the mail train last week [c5.1902], most of them being members of the Fifth Contingent - Lieutenant TUCKER, 268 Sergeant H SMITH, 201 Sergeant BECKETT, 233 Sergeant EGAN, 333 Sergeant RAMSAY, Privates 473 MARSDEN, 868 DAVIS, ARMSTRONG, 600 SWAIN, 147 WALDEN, 356 HODGE, 448 HOHEURN, 411 W JEFFREY, 501 J FOX, 108 MORLEY, 612 MACFARLANE, 92 A PRICE (Sixth Contingent), WALSH, WALLIS, WILSON, 63 BATES, 317 ANDERSON, 186 NEVILL, 407 M COLEMAN, BARLOW, 235 WAKEFIELD, 61 WHITTAKER, 155 PALMER, 309 MARMONT, SMITH, 4 WANZA, 248 M CURTIS, GUILFOYLE, Corporals WESBILL, HARTE and 420 LOSEBY.
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