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Surname		DAVIS
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Jacob John
Regimental Number		235
Rank		Trooper
Unit Name		5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen
State		SA
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		West Australian: ?slightly wounded at Winburg. Woolmore2: Tpr. Special Sqn. Steinacker's Horse, prisoner of war near Haenertsburg on 16.4.1902, Queen's South Africa medal and 3 clasps (Tvl SA01 & SA02). URL2: Boer War veteran funeral benefit 1939. Source:# 1121 Cook's Mate aboard HMCS Protector on her China Deployment. URL3: Cook's Mate JJ DAVIS presented with medal and gratuity for China service aboard HMCS Protector at Port Adelaide Town Hall 30.5.1903. URL5: 'C'Sqn. 1st Troop SAIB arrived in Albany WA 22.4.1902 from Capetown via Durban per 'Manchester Merchant' for Adelaide. URL6: Trooper John DAVIS, son of Mr. S DAVIS, of Adelaide, returned last week [c5.1902] from a year's campaigning in South Africa. He looks as if fighting agrees with him. He only returned from the war in China a few months before setting out once more to fight for his country in the Transvaal. He is evidently of the sturdy bull-dog breed that forms the backbone of Great Britain's bulwarks, and who step easily from fighting with big guns on an ironclad to carrying the rifle and bandolier.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 370 West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 11.9.1901 Woolmore2: Steinaecker's Horsemen page(s) 175 D4549: National Archives of Australia series D4549 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1121 Ad. Advertiser: Adelaide Advertiser newspaper date(s) 1.6.1903 Register: The Register newspaper South Australia 23.4.1902 Jewish Herald: Jewish Herald newspaper page(s) 23.5.1902
External Link URL1		www.britishmedals.us/files/127steinaecker.htm
External Link URL2		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Items_listing.asp?S=1&F=1&O=0&T=I&C=72
External Link URL3		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4955626
External Link URL4		www.steinaeckershorse.com/
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55668198
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article149616438

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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