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Surname CADDOW
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Ernest Arthur
Regimental Number 1594
RankTrooper
Unit Name 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles
StateNSW
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)

Murray: 'E'Sqn.
Regal: Queen's South Africa medal and 2 clasps (OFS & Tvl).
B5204: labourer born ?1873 in Kyneton Vic., next of kin in Sydney NSW.
URL1: 'E'Sqn. photo #23.
URL2: Citizen's Welcome to Returned Soldiers. Complimentary Smoke Concert. On Monday evening [16.6.1902], at Tattersall's Hotel, Troopers J HAYES, W CAMPER, L BELL, W GRIFFITHS, E CADDOW, J MCKINNON and B KILGOUR were publicly welcomed home at a smoke concert. These young men recently returned by the steamship Aurania and reached Sydney on the day that the news of peace having been proclaimed reached our shores. At the invitation of our worthy Mayor (Ald. GIBSON) they on Monday night attended at the smoke concert arranged in their honor.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 135
Regal: Regal Coin Co. - Medals & Militaria Lists date(s) 4/1971
B5204: National Archives of Australia series B5204 folder 11A
Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 9.3.1901
RTHS&JWC: Riverina Times, Hay Standard & Journal of Water Conservation (Hay NSW) newspaper date(s) 19.6.1902
External Link URL1nla.gov.au/nla.news-page5336706
External Link URL2nla.gov.au/nla.news-article144657513


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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