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Australians
in the Boer War
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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 | | WILLSON |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Albert Herbert |
| Regimental Number | | 74 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry |
| State | | Vic |
Extracts and Comments
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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.
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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
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