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Surname DURHAM
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) James
Regimental Number 169
RankPrivate
Unit Name 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry
StateQld
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
Murray: 'A'Coy.
Source:# 72 Gympie Qld.
URL1: WW1 AIF 140 Corporal 2LH.
URL2: billiard marker aged 32 from Yarragon via Esk Qld.
B5172: Gympie Qld.
URL3: returned per 'Orient' arrived Brisbane 16.1.1901 discharged 23.1.1901, in Green Pt. Hospital 29.11.1900 to 7.12.1900 with diarrhorea.
URL8: attached to CinC's Bodyguard, Queen's South Africa Medal and 6 clasps (Belf. DH Jbg. Drief. Paard. & RoK).
URL9: ?DURHAM John Tpr. 22427 Commander-in-Chief's Bodyguard or DURHAM James Lieut. in Original CinC Body Guard.
URL10: ACoy. seconded to Transvaal Mounted & Foot Police 19.6.1900 rejoined 1.7.1900.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 451
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 72
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 & 21.8.1900
Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 4.4.1903
QldTIps.: Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald & General Advertiser newspaper date(s) 18.11.1948 p6
External Link URL1www.awm.gov.au/database/133/page.asp?Folder=15&Page=41&Surname=durham
External Link URL2www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/10_7_1/pdf/0298.pdf
External Link URL3naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=680528&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL4naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3529938&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL5aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=86537
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-article21811426
External Link URL9www.britishmedals.us/files/127cic.htm
External Link URL10nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19036091


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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