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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 BRISTOW
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) George Edwin
Regimental Number 263
RankPrivate
Unit Name 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
StateVic
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
McLachlan: ?BRISTOWE, killed or died.
Murray: BRISTOW, died of enteric at Brandfort on 10.5.1900.
Price1: BRISTOWE wounded 6.5.1900, War Memorials Ballarat & Canberra.
Reay: BRISTOWE wounded died of fever.
URL2: ?BRISTOW George Edward from Stawell Vic.
B5177: clerk aged 22.
B5179: clerk from Stawell Vic.
McIlvena: clerk born 1877 in Pleasant Ck. Vic.
URL4: Tpr. G BRISTOWE dangerously injured in fall from Horse at Brandfort.
URL5: BRISTOW of Vics., badly crushed by the saddle-pommel as his horse fell on him knocked over by a shell explosion.
URL6: Troopers WG TAYLOR and CJ TONKIN of New South Wales, have been severely wounded c5.1900 and the death of G BRISTOW a Victorian is reported from Brandfort, of enteric.
URL7: MELBOURNE, Wednesday Afternoon [16.5.1900]. A cable has been received from South Africa stating that Private BRISTOW, of the second Victorian contingent, died of enteric fever at Brandfort on May 10.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 237 336
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 26
Reay: Australians at War - with the Australian Regiment page(s) 375
B5177: National Archives of Australia series B5177
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
McIlvena: Wimmera-Mallee Volunteers to the Boer War page(s) 56
Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 19.5.1900
Inq.&CN: Inquirer & Commercial News Perth. 6.7.1900 SWaSJ: 22.5.1900 SydEN: 17.5.1900
External Link URL1www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2home.vicnet.net.au/~stawgeny/reefs10.html
External Link URL3awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL4nla.gov.au/nla.news-page5325572
External Link URL5nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67068537
External Link URL6nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113808664
External Link URL7nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113710347


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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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