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Surname WILLSON
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Albert Herbert
Regimental Number 74
RankPrivate
Unit Name 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry
StateVic
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)

McLachlan: ?WILSON AH 1VMI.
Murray: 1Vic. Mounted Infantry Coy. killed or died.
Price1: killed in action at Rensburg on 10.2.1900, War Memorials Bairnsdale Canberra Ballarat and Sale, Aust. Regt.
Reay: killed in action 9.2.1900.
Source:# 157 Sale Vic.
B5177: grazier aged 23.
B5179: grazier from Sale Vic.
URL4: S. Africa Details CCoy VMR (militia), grazier aged 23 at attestation 7.10.1899, 1st Contingent.
URL5: FALLEN SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL, UNVEILING CEREMONY. On Saturday afternoon [27.11.1909] the monument erected to the memory of Gippsland soldiers who fought and fell in the Boer War was unveiled by Colonel FOXTON MHR, Honorary Minister, in the presence of a large gathering of persons resident in the town and district. ... The memorial bears the inscription - "In memory of our soldiers who fell in the Boer war, 1899—1902." The names already inscribed are - Pte. MW ATKINSON, Pte. E GREENWOOD, Pte. H LAMB, Pte. J RANKIN and Pte. AH WILSON, all of Sale.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 216 219 224 336
Wallace1: The Australians at the Boer War page(s) 111
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 23
Reay: Australians at War - with the Australian Regiment page(s) 374
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 109
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 157
B5177: National Archives of Australia series B5177
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
Gippsland Tms: Gippsland Times newspaper date(s) 29.11.1909
External Link URL1www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2www.mjvn.co.za/anglo-boer/cemetery.htm
External Link URL3users.netwit.net.au/~ianmac/austregt.html
External Link URL4virts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~surreal/AVG/Resources/mounted-rifles.html
External Link URL5nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65269192


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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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