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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 CONRAD
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Herbert Selman
Regimental Number 407
RankTrooper
Unit Name 5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen
StateSA
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
Newbury1: WW1 AIF 16Bn. killed in action on Gallipoli 2.5.1915, 1437 Lance Corporal 16Bn. killed in action 2.5.1915 at Quinn's Post, Gallipoli enlisted Adelaide, SA.
URL2: CONRAD, Herbert Selmar.
URL3: labourer from St. Peters SA.
Roe: 5SAIB attestion shows Herbert Selmir a butcher aged 19 born in Adelaide SA, next of kin father S CONRAD West Adelaide.
URL5: WW1 AIF 1437 L/Cpl. 1/16Bn. a labourer aged 31 in 1914 born in Adelaide SA next of kin mother in Prospect, 5th SA Contingent 1 year 110 days, killed in action Gallipoli 2.5.1915 buried at plot D row A grave 2 Quinn's Post.
URL6: 'C'Sqn. 4th Troop SAIB arrived in Albany WA 22.4.1902 from Capetown via Durban per 'Manchester Merchant' for Adelaide.
URL7: in memoriam notice for L/Cpl. HS CONRAD 16Bn. killed in action at Gallipoli 2.5.1915, also served in Boer War.
Ad. Advertiser: Trooper Herbert Selmar Conrad (E Half Squadron) Went to the war with the Fifth Contingent, but as he was enrolled subsequent to the general enrolment his name did not appear in the published list.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 370
Newbury1: South Australians and the South African War page(s) 8
B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
AP613: National Archives of Australia series AP613
Register: The Register newspaper South Australia 23.4.1902
Ad. Advertiser: Adelaide Advertiser newspaper date(s) 19.2.1901, 2.5.1934, 2.5.1936, 1.5.1937 & 2.5.1938
External Link URL1www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL2www.anzacs.net/GRAVES/Cemeteries/Cemetery_r.htm
External Link URL3www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/23_33_2/pdf/0034.pdf
External Link URL4aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=60304
External Link URL5naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3280007&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL6nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55668198
External Link URL7nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41640625
External Link URL8nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74384973
External Link URL9nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35428489
External Link URL10nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47555302


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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