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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		WIECK
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		George Frederick Gardles
Regimental Number		8
Rank		Bombardier
Unit Name		1st Queensland Mounted Infantry
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: MG Section, prisoner of war Sanna's Post 31.3.1900 relieved 4.6.1900. B5172: WEICK Victoria Barracks Brisbane Qld. URL2: returned per 'Orient' arrived Brisbane 16.1.1901 discharged 23.1.1901, suffered enteric at Pretoria while a prisoner for all of 4.1900, WW1 Lieut. Col. URL3: WW1 AIF Lt. Col. DSO 9LH. URL4: Lt. Col. later service no. QP636. URL7: there were five Queenslanders who had been taken prisoners at Sannaspost. These were released at Pretoria [c6.6.1900]. They were Sergeant BREYDON, Privates JOHNSON, WEIKE, SPURWAY and STAINES. A private letter says concerning them - "Their ration of 1 lb. of meat and a limited amount of mealie meal per week has reduced them considerably".
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 456 Paterson: From the Front page(s) 268 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418 D2994: National Archives of Australia series D2994 B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455 AWM38: National Archives of Australia series AWM38 AWM43: National Archives of Australia series AWM43 Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 18.11.1899 GympieT: Gympie Times and Mary River Mining Gazette newspaper date(s) 4.8.1900
External Link URL1		www.qmmm.org/QPA/QPAhistory.html
External Link URL2		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=688360&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL3		www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1/page.asp?folder=56&page=77&surname=wieck
External Link URL4		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=8388378&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL5		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3705653
External Link URL7		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177737812

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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