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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		BRIDGES
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Thomas George
Regimental Number		365
Rank		Private
Unit Name		4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: Corporal. B5172: c/- Zillmere Qld. Source:# 928 born 1876 probably at German Station (now Nundah) Qld. the eldest son on Thomas BRIDGES MLA, letter dated 15.12.1900 to great-uncle from Pretoria, died 1907 aged 31 at his farm at Cabbage-tree Creek (now Northgate) Brisbane, from a gunshot wound (apparently suicide) and buried in Nundah Cemetery. Family belief was that he was distressed by events he saw in the Boer War. URL3: photo #365. URL5: A WAR LEGACY. A YOUNG MAN'S DEATH. BRISBANE, Wednesday [17.7.1907]. A fatal shooting case occurred on Tuesday afternoon at Cabbage Tree Creek, near Sandgate. Late in the evening a man named Thomas George BRIDGES, son of the ex-member for Nundah, in the State Parliament, aged 31, was found dead in his room with a bullet wound in his side. The deceased left a letter to his father in which he referred to his physical troubles since his return from South Africa.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 486 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 928 Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 18.7.1907 Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 19.5.1900 Chronicle: Chronicle newspaper Adelaide SA date(s) 20.7.1907 Cairns Post: Cairns Post newspaper date(s) 18.7.1907
External Link URL1		online.brisbane.qld.gov.au/cemeteries/cemeteries_step3.jsp?mapdisplay=84244
External Link URL2		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL3		newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/2528965?zoomLevel=2
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88139554
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44442231

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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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