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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		ELLIS
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Aubrey Thomas
Regimental Number		131
Rank		Private
Unit Name		4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		B5172: c/- Russell Gold Fields Cairns Qld. URL1: invalided with dysentry per 'Ranee' arrived Brisbane 8.3.1901 discharged 15.3.1901 to Townson via Laidley. URL3: photo #131. URL4: A RETURNED SOLDIER'S FATE. A paragraph in the 'Pall Mall Gazette' of September 13 [1902] stated that one Trooper ELLIS, who had just returned after serving in South Africa for a year, had been killed at Sydney by an explosion of some limelight apparatus, with which some views, descriptive of the war, were being presented. Having seen the paragraph, Mrs. Annie B WESTON, of Southampton, England, has written to the local authorities, endeavouring to ascertain whether it relates to her brother, Thomas Aubrey ELLIS, who was a member of the Imperial Bushmen. No record of an accident such as that described has been found here, and it is thought that the death of Trooper EDGAR, who was killed during a fireworks display at Armidale, on July 9, may be referred to. Constable ALLANSON, of No. 1 Police Station, is desirous that Thomas Aubrey ELLIS, or any person who knew him, will communicate with him.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 482 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418 Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 19.5.1900 Evg. News: Evening News (Sydney NSW) date(s) 16.12.1902
External Link URL1		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=681203&I=1&SE=1
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/2528966?zoomLevel=2
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114507548

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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