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Murray: Marmaduke M 1Vic. Mounted Infantry Coy., died.
Price1: died of enteric at Smithfield 27.6.1900, War Memorials Bairnsdale Canberra Ballarat & Sale.
Source:# 157 Sale Vic.
B5177: grazier aged 21.
B5179: grazier from Sale Vic.
URL1: 1971 correspondence from Hampton Vic. re grave site, Marmaduke William born 1879 in Sale, buried Smithfield OFS 27.6.1900.
URL4: S. African Detail CCoy VMR (Militia), a grazier aged 21 at attestation 23.9.1899, 1st Contingent.
URL6: Pte. HW ATKINSON ORC Provisional Mounted Police c5.1900.
URL7: FALLEN SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL, UNVEILING CEREMONY. On Saturday afternoon [27.11.1909] the monument erected to the memory of Gippsland soldiers who fought and fell in the Boer War was unveiled by Colonel FOXTON MHR, Honorary Minister, in the presence of a large gathering of persons resident in the town and district.... The memorial bears the inscription - "In memory of our soldiers who fell in the Boer war, 1899—1902." The names already inscribed are - Pte. MW ATKINSON, Pte. E GREENWOOD, Pte. H LAMB, Pte. J RANKIN and Pte. AH WILSON, all of Sale.
URL8: Mr A MCLEAN MHR, performed the ceremony of unveiling [the memorial at Bairnsdale c6.1903]. THE INSCRIPTIONS. WEST FACE - Lance-Corpl. WD MAYS, Bairnsdale; Private AT WOODMAN, Bairnsdale; Private R MCGREGOR, Lindenow; Private HO WALFORD, Bulumwaal. NORTH FACE - Private AH WILSON, Sale; Private MM ATKINTON, Sale; Private H LAMB, Sale; Private J RANKIN, Sale; Private FH CAUGHNEY,Iguana Creek. SOUTH FACE - Corporal J MCGOWAN, Warragul; Private JW CRIGHTON, Warragul; Private TJ ROSE, Morwell; Private GW BOLDING, Morwell; Private AB DAVIDSON, Moe. EAST FACE - Sergeant DH PRUDEN, Newry; Sergeant MT MCDONALD, Yinnar; Private J MCCLURE, Won Wron; Private J JONSON, Hospital Creek; Private EA VALPIED, Toora.
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