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.
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