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Australians
in the Boer War
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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 | | DUGGAN |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | James |
| Regimental Number | | 77 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| State | | Qld |
Extracts and Comments
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Murray: killed in action at Honen's Nek on 13.7.1900, shot dead in a skirmish.
Source:# 133 first 4QIB casualty.
B5172: c/- Brisbane Qld.
URL3: photo #77.
URL4: Trooper P NOLAN, who was well known on Netley and in Broken Hill, and went to South Africa with the Queensland Imperial Bushmen, writes from Pretoria to his mother at South Broken Hill. His letter is dated 31.7.1900 ... "The next day we started on a march after General Botha, 21,000 of us (including 19,000 fighting men). We were to drive the Boers on to Buller and Lord Roberts; they retired before as every day till we reached Balmoral. We were close upon them there, for we cooked our dinners in their fires. Then came a storm, and our waggons and guns were bogged; the Boers were in pretty much the same plight. Buller came on them the next day and blew old Harry ont of them. He took a lot of guns and prisoners. ... We had two skirmishes that day. Private DUGGAN and Sergeant MAXWELL were killed; MAXWELL was shot in five places.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 475 481 541
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 133
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 19.5.1900
Barrier Miner: Barrrier Miner newspaper date(s) 7.9.1900
| | External Link URL1 | | www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php | | External Link URL2 | | www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf | | External Link URL3 | | newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/2528964?zoomLevel=2 | | External Link URL4 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44263862 |
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