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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		CHAUVEL
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Henry George
Regimental Number
Rank		Captain
Unit Name		1st Queensland Mounted Infantry
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: 'A'Coy., Adjutant 13.2.1900 local Major 30.11.1900-21.1.1901, Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 16.4.1901 CMG, Queen's South Africa medal and 4 clasps (RoK Drief. Jbg. & DH), OC 7ACH. Wallace1: Lieutenant General in WWI. Sproule: captured the Boer Pom Pom in Qld,. Museum Repository. B5172: Victoria Barracks Brisbane. URL3: Major HG CHANVEL, aboard the "Orient" leaving Cape Town for Australia and New Zealand on 13.12.1900. URL6: CMG LG 19.4.1901.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 447 449 450 458 Field: The Forgotten War etc. page(s) 41 Wallace1: The Australians at the Boer War page(s) 82-3 122 Fogg: 5th Contingent Qld. Imperial Bushmen in South Africa 1901-02 page(s) 17 Mitchell: Light Horse: the Story of Australia's Mounted Troops page(s) various Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 135 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 139 Sproule: Molong Mounted Rifles South Africa 1899-1902 10.1902 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418 Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 18.11.1899 Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 22.4.1901
External Link URL1		www.lighthorse.org.au/military/tabulam.htm
External Link URL2		www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/~rmallett/Generals/chauvel.html
External Link URL3		www.angloboerwar.com/Other/shipping/190012.htm
External Link URL4		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3705653
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14360001

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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