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Murray: 'C'Sqn. drowned 26.11.1901.
Source:# 438 War Memorial Winsdor NSW, accidentally drowned in Vaal R.
B5204: currier born 1880 in Windsor NSW.
URL4: accidentally drowned at Vaal R. Drift.
URL7: 'Jack' accidentally drowned at Villiersdorp aged 21.
URL8: joint letter from Farr. Sgt. GJ DICKSON and Tpr. J GOSPER dated Standerton 15.6.1901.
URL5: 'A'Sqn. photo #43.
URL9: Private William WOOD died of enteric fever at Standerton [c12.1901]; Private CJ GOSPER was accidentally drowned at Vaal River. Both belong to the New South Wales Mounteds.
URL10: THE PREMIER AT WINDSOR. UNVEILING A SOLDIERS' MONUMENT. Sir John SEE proceeded to Windsor on Saturday [22.11.1902] to unveil a monument to three soldiers who had fallen in South Africa. He was accompanied by Mr J COOK MP, of whose federal electorate the district is a part, Messrs H CLARKE, J THOMSON, JCL FITZPATRICK and ARCHER MsLA and Mr Samuel SEE. At Windsor the party was received by the Mayor (Captain PAINE) the member for the district (Captain Brinsley HALL), and the Mayor of Richmond (Mr E CAMPBELL). They were escorted by the local force of Lancers and the band of A Company of the 3rd Regiment to Windsor Park, where the monu ment, veiled by a Union Jack, stood. The visitors ascended a platform, and the Major explained that the monument was to the memory of three residents of the district who had gone to the war and never returned They were troopers GOSPER and MONTGOMERY and Farrier-sergeant DICKSON. Sir John SEE then loosened the ties which bound the Union Jack, the buglers sounded the "last post," and as the Jack was hauled to the the top of the mast "Rule Britannia" was played by the band. ... the party inspected the monument. This was of white marble on a freestone base. The inscription on the front panel ran as follows - 'In memory of soldiers from Windsor and district who lost their lives in the service of the Empire in South Africa , this monument was erected os a tribute ot respect by the residents of Windsor'. On the right panel were the words - 'Charles John GOSPER accidentally drowned in the Vaal River, South Africa, November 20,1901'. On the left panel the words were - 'Farrier-Sergeant George Jennings DICKSON, who died of enteric fever at Standerton, South Africa, January 9, 1902'. The rear panel was incribed thus - 'Trooper George Archie MONTGOMERY, killed at Zeerust, South Africa, October 27, 1900'.
Windsor & R.Gaz.: Mr. JJ PAINE, Mayor of Windsor, has received a letter from Major BENNETT, now in South Africa, giving a detailed account of the death of Trooper CJ GOSPER, and also a reference to the death of Farrier-Sergeant George DICKSON, both of whom were attached to his column.
Sydney Tel.: WINDSOR, Tuesday [4.11.1902], — A monument erected by the public in Macquarie Park, in memory of Trooper CJ GOSPER and Farrier-sergeant GJ DICKSON, who lost their lives in South Africa, is to be unveiled on the 22nd Inst. by Sir John SEE.
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