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| Surname | | FLINT |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Thomas |
| Regimental Number | | 648 |
| Rank | | Private |
| Unit Name | | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| State | | Qld |
Extracts and Comments
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Murray: Details per 'Britannic' (all but one of the Details had served in 3rd or 4th Qld. Contingents), killed in action at Amersfoort on 3.2.1902.
Fogg: Saddler Corporal 5QIB 'Britannic' Draft, captured 3.2.1902, killed in action at Amersfoort 3.2.1902.
Smith2: 3QMI, King's South Africa Medal and 2 clasps (not entitled).
URL2: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
URL3: Cpl. FLINT & Pte. RUDHALL 5QIB reported missing declared killed in action at Omerspoort 3.2.1902.
URL4: believed captured at Amersfoort 3.2.1902.
Source:# 1445 Benjamin RUDHALL (born Barnet RUDHALL at Birmingham Eng. in 1854) served before his marriage in the 2nd Dragoons - according to his Chelsea Pensioners discharge documents as Pte. ?1406. He served 10 years and 165 days in the British Army - joining in mid 1872 and discharged by purchase on 30.12.1882. He married Annie SMITH in 12.1883 giving his occupation on the marriage record as "Stamper". They emigrated to Queensland between then and 7.1884 when their first child was born in Brisbane. Benjamin worked for some time as a warder on St Helena Island, but had to resign when his wife suffered extended ill health. TB would claim her in the end, just seven months after Ben was captured by the Boers near Amersfoort and executed (along with T FLINT). They had no relations in Brisbane so the family was split up - the elder children went into service and the younger ones into a home. Photo of Ben (and Annie) with Ben in his military uniform - possibly taken just before his 'second' tour? Medal photo is (apparently) Ben's medal, now cared for by his great great grandson. Statement of 23.5.1902 by James Burns MACFARLANE 612 6QIB for the Court of Inquiry into both Ben RUDHALL and Thomas FLINT's deaths - "On the 3rd February last these two men were on our extreme right flank, and had no time to retire, being cut off and taken prisoners. A Boer Prisoner captured by us a week or two afterwards, near the scene of the old fight, declared that Ben RUDHALL was shot through the back of the head and Tom FLINT was shot through his back, and that he buried the bodies. He also stated that they were both killed in action. We of course know differently. Sergt Major WILLMOTT will be here in a few days, and he has RUDHALL's kit, and can corroborate my statement."
URL5: Corporal FLINT reported to be shot. Our Westwood correspondent writing on Wednesday night [21.5.1902] says - ... The following letter from Corporal FLINT's particular friend, who himself recovered from a shot through the head in the first campaign, was received by Mr. FLINT senr. It is from from Volksrust and dated the 15th of February last [1902] - "No doubt you will think I ought to have written to you before this but knowing that you would receive the sad news before a letter could reach you, I hoped to be able to give some more information. Not knowing what became of your son, we thought he was taken prisoner. Since that I was informed, by a Boer prisoner, that he was shot dead.
I can imagine what a terrible blow it must be to his people. He has never been found although we searched the kopje from one end to the other for his grave. We did not go over the ground the day it happened as one man that escaped assured us that he had been taken prisoner by the Boers and it was not until we had marched some 10 miles and camped for the night that I found out that the man did not really see him taken prisoner. I have got nothing belonging to him. I can assure you that he has been missed from our line very much and is not likely to be forgotten by his mates. This is a hard blow for you but I trust your son is in a happier land." One of the recently returned Mount Morgan men told Mr. FLINT that Boer prisoners reported that Corporal FLINT and another
man went into a garden after the engagement for some fruit and some Boers called
upon them to surrender. They refused and were at once shot. Mr. T FLINT went out with the Mount Morgan men in the third contingent and was one of those on the memorable march for the relief of Mafeking. He was also among those who made that brilliant defence at Elands River. Last year he returned to Queensland, but could not settle to work although he was given lucrative employment, by the Mount Morgan Gold-mining Company. He therefore returned to South Africa about the middle of the year. It was his intention, if he got safely through the war, to volunteer for the projected overland expedition to Egypt. He was a typical Australian, full of the daring enterprising spirit which shows no degeneration from the sturdy ancestral stock. Great sympathy is felt here for his parents and family in their loss.
URL6: Private Edward SAMS, Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles, died of enteric at Heilbron; Private Ravid Ross CRICHTON, Second New South Wales Mounted Rifles, died of enteric at Standerton; Lance-Corporal DALLISTON, Fifth West Australia Mounted Rifles, was killed at Waterval River, on the 1st instant [1.2.1902]; Privates. Robert ALLDA and Arthur HAMMOND, Fifth West Australian Mounted Rifles, were killed, and Private Alfred ABBOTT was dangerously wounded, in the same engagement. Private JF DUFFY, Fifth Victorian Mounted Rifles, severely wounded on Christmas Day at Balmoral. Chaplain FOREMAN, Third New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent, has sailed for England; Privates John CONSIDINE and Wm. DAVIES, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, wounded at Charlestown. Private WC JACKSON, Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric at Bloemfontein. Private J DURE, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, has been accidentally severely wounded in the thigh. It is believed that Corporal T FLINT and Private Ben RUDHEAL have been captured at Amerspoort. Lieutenant George Augustus MORRIS, of the Sixth West Australian Mounted Rifles, was killed at Rolspruit. Private A DALEY, Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric at Norvalspont. Private Bertram COCHRANE, of the South Australian Bushmen, bas died of dysentery at Capetown.
URL7: Corporal T FLINT and Private Ben. RUDHALL, members of the Fifth Queensland Contingent, are believed to have been captured at Amerspoort.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 518 541
Fogg: 5th Contingent Qld. Imperial Bushmen in South Africa 1901-02 page(s) 15
Smith2: Australian KSA Medal Recipients page(s) 13
Chronicle: Chronicle newspaper Adelaide SA date(s) 12.7.1902
Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 15.2.1902
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1445
MP744: National Archives of Australia series MP744 /11 1903/4397
Rockh. Bull.: Rockhampton Morning Bulletin date(s) 24.5.1902
Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 15.2.1902
W. Mail: Western Mail newspaper date(s) 15.2.1902
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