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Surname		ELSTON
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		William Ernest
Regimental Number
Rank		Lieutenant
Unit Name		6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: Sergeant 3QMI supernumerary Lieutenant 6QIB, Queen's South Africa medal and 5 clasps King's South Africa medal and 2 clasps. URL1: sailed from Port Natal for Aust. aboard the 'Montrose' 15.7.1902. URL3: Lieut. EW ELSTON 6QIB per 'Montrose' to Melbourne Vic. 8.8.1902. Source:# 1578 ELSTON, William Ernest enlisted for WW1 duties on 13.10.1915, a 45 year-old farmer, married and in Western Australia; served as Lieutenant, later Captain and taken Prisoner Of War at Gallipoli, repatriated to Australia December, 1918. Posted Missing. Born 10.5.1869, died in Perth, 1955, 87 years of age, parents shown as William L and Eleanor. URL5: ADFA AIF Database Record. URL6: Lieutenant WE ELSTON, one of the West Australians reported missing, is the eldest son of the late Mr WLA ELSTON, a former manager of the National Bank of Australasia, Ballarat, Victoria, and of Mrs. ELSTON, Mair street, Ballarat. Lieutenant ELSTON was born at Camperdown, Victoria, and enlisted with the Queensland Bushmen during the Boer war, and entered Mafeking shortly after the siege was raised.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 509 510 Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 13.4.1901 Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 9.8.1902 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1578 Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 29.5.1915
External Link URL1		www.angloboerwar.com/other-information/86-shipping-records/1826-shipping-records-july-1902
External Link URL2		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL3		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14495577
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2518778
External Link URL5		www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=91404
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1520633

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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