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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 DOWSE
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Richard
Regimental Number
RankLieutenant
Unit Name 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry
StateQld
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)

Murray: 'B'Coy., Captain & Adjutant Maitland Camp 6.11.1900-12.12.1900, Queen's South Africa medal and 4 clasps (RoK Paard. Drief. & Jbg.).
Mitchell: Captain.
URL1: WW1 AIF Brevet Colonel DSO 3rd D.Train.
URL2: Officer of Permanent Forces aged 50 next of kin from Melbourne Vic.
B5172: Albion Qld.
URL3: aboard the 'Orient' leaving Cape Town for Australia and New Zealand on 13.12.1900.
B4418: returned per 'Orient' arrived Brisbane 16.1.1901 to HQ Office, 12 days acute dysentry on voyage from Capetown.
URL4: WW1 AIF Lt. Col. 22ASC 3Div.Trn., a Permanent Forces officer aged 49 in 1916 born 1866 in Portsea Eng., next of kin wife c/- Melbourne Vic. later New York City USA, DSO and MID, 1950 correspondence with Repatriation Commission Sydney, died 1958.
URL8: Major WH TUNBRIDGE, Captain WG THOMPSON, Captain JE DODS, Lieutenant R DOWSE, Lieutenant J WALKER, Lieutenant H HARRIS, Lieutenant P GLASGOW, Lieutenant CG ADIE, Lieutenant RM STODART, Lieutenant AF CRICHTON reimbursed by Qld. on behalf of Imperial authorities for loss of chargers. All officers of the fourth, fifth, and sixth contingents have been refused, the War Office replying that the £50 allowance already paid covered the cost of horses, etc.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 448 450 453
Mitchell: Light Horse: the Story of Australia's Mounted Troops page(s) 12
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418
B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 18.11.1899
Bne. Tele.: Brisbane Telegraph newspaper date(s) 7.11.1903
External Link URL1www.awm.gov.au/database/133/page.asp?Folder=14&Page=143&Surname=dowse
External Link URL2www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/25_16_1/pdf/0384.pdf
External Link URL3www.angloboerwar.com/Other/shipping/190012.htm
External Link URL4naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3520511&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL5aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=83176
External Link URL6www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL7nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3705653
External Link URL8nla.gov.au/nla.news-article174837873


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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