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Australians
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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 | | WALTER |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Charles Richard Douglas |
| Regimental Number | | 553 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 6th South Australian Imperial Bushmen |
| State | | SA |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: killed Standerton 9.6.1901.
HAGSOC: Memorial Reitz.
URL3: killed at Reitz 6.6.1901.
URL4: contribution by sister in Queenstown to National Memorial Fund.
URL5: In Memoriam from family, killed at Grasspan near Reitz 6.6.1901 aged 23.
URL7: killed in action.
URL9: 1915 In Memoriam.
PADN&FC: The Departed Brave. Sunday, 19.9.1909 was a memorable tho' sad day to many who attended the Memorial Service to the soldiers from South Australia who died in South Africa during the Boer War. There was a mammoth gathering to witness the ceremony, at the Memorial Statute in Adelaide on the occasion. The following is the Roll Call of the South Australian heroes who lost their lives. First Contingent. Surgeon-Mjr. TOLL, Lieut. POWELL, Cpls. HEINJUS and KLAFFER, Tprs. SMITH and MATHEWS. Second Contingent. Lieut. GORDON, Tptr. MARSHALL, Tprs. BARTLETT, MARSDEN, and HARDY. Third Contingent. Capt. HUBBE, Cpl. CURRIE, Tprs. MILLMAN and SLOAN. Fourth Contingent. Sgt. MCCABE, Saddler MITCHELL, Tptr. DAVIS, Tprs. PROSSER, MOORE, NICHOLAS, PAGE, HONNER, PALMER, GOODES, WOODHAM, LANDSELL and TOTHILL. Fifth Contingent. Capt. HIPWELL Reg. Sgt.-Mjr. MCGILLIVRAY, QMS SCHUMANN, Sgts. HAMILTON, RUST, and MERCER. Cpl. WHITE, Lce.-Cpl. HAMP, Tprs. GIBB, WHITTLE, MAY, HORSEFALL, GLUYAS, COCHRANE, HIRTH, VICKERY and SIMMONS. Sixth Contingent. Sgt. MURRIE, Lce.-Cpl BARRON, Tprs. BENNIER, WALTER, EWINGS, MARSHALL, CROFT. MAIN, TEATE and BEARE. 2nd Australian Commonwealth Horse. Tprs. BROWNLEY, SPILLANE and TAEUBER.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 376 391
HAGSOC: HAGSOC's South African Graves website
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 18.6.1901
Register: The Register newspaper South Australia 3.1, 23.4 & 6.6.1902
Ad. Advertiser: Adelaide Advertiser newspaper date(s) 6.6.1902, 5.6.1915 & 6.6.1916
Chronicle: Chronicle newspaper Adelaide SA date(s) 3.5.1902, 9.6.1906 & 13.6.1914
PADN&FC: Port Augusta Dispatch, Newcastle and Flinders Chronicle newspaper date(s) 24.9.1909
| | External Link URL1 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php | | External Link URL2 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/mems0001.php | | External Link URL3 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10556455 | | External Link URL4 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56230100 | | External Link URL5 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56556043 | | External Link URL6 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4900711 | | External Link URL7 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4409063 | | External Link URL8 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87827494 | | External Link URL9 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5470473 | | External Link URL10 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88839240 |
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