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Australians
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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 | | FISHER |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Hugh Addison |
| Regimental Number | | 290 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| State | | Qld |
Extracts and Comments
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Blair: Yarragon Vic.
Kopje: letter from Ramathlabama 5.1900.
B5172: next of kin in Garragon Vic.
URL2: photo #290 single c/- HA FISHER Yarragon Vic.
URL3: A BRUNSWICK SOLDIER WELCOMED AT YARRAGON. The residents of Yarragon recently tendered a welcome-home social to their returned citizen soldiers from South Africa. Those in whose honour the social was tendered were Privates RB PETERS (2nd contingent), late of Brunswick, and son of Mr. Brooks PETERS of the Victoria Pottery company, G BELIMER and A GEARY (Bushmen), and H FISHER (2nd Queenslanders).
URL4: YARRAGON - Four soldiers who have returned from South Africa - Privates RB PETERS, G BELLMER, A GEARY and WS FISHER - were were welcomed here on Monday evening [19.6.1901]. A social and dance were held at the Mechanics' Institute, and, not withstanding the bad weather, there was a very large attendance. A medal with a suitable inscription, was presented to each of the men.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 473
Kaplan1: Medal Roll for the QSA with Bar Relief of Mafeking 84
Blair: Shoulder to Shoulder - Military History of Baw Baw Shire page(s) 8
Kopje: ABWSGoA journal The Kopje date(s) 9.2001
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 3.3.1900
Coburg Ldr.: Brunswick and Coburg Leader newspaper date(s) 3.8.1901
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 21.6.1901
| | External Link URL1 | | www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf | | External Link URL2 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-page2518783 | | External Link URL3 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66821461 | | External Link URL4 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10556906 |
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