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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		WELLS
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		James Williams
Regimental Number		270
Rank		Private
Unit Name		3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: James William. B5172: Toowong Qld. URL1: returned per 'Orient' arrived Brisbane 16.1.1901 discharged 23.1.1901 to Toowong, Irish Hospital Pretoria 12.9.1900 with gunshot wound to left foot, accident. URL3: James Williams, left from Sydney with 1QMI in October 1899 but contracted double pneumonia and was sent back there but when recovered set off again in March 1900, Aust. Boer War Memorial database record. URL4: WELLS JW 1QMI from Toowong Qld. URL5: James William photo #270 single, Cemetery Rd. Toowong Qld.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 472 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418 Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 18.11.1899 Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 3.3.1900
External Link URL1		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=688195&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL2		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL3		bwm.org.au/site/James_Wells.php
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3705653
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2518783

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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