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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 GRANT
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Neil
Regimental Number 2
RankSergeant
Unit Name 1st Victorian Mounted Infantry
StateVic
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)		Aust.Regt.
Murray: 1Vic. Mounted Infantry Coy. killed.
Wallace1: shot by young boy using sporting rifle.
Price1: killed in action at Rensburg on 10.2.1900 photo War Memorials Ballarat & Canberra.
B5177: soldier aged 45.
B5179: agent from Ballarat Vic.
URL4: family death notice, aged 47.
URL6: shot through chest with explosive bullet.
URL7: 1915 In Memoriam.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 216 219 223 336
Wallace1: The Australians at the Boer War page(s) 111
Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 18 & 24
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 109
Reay: Australians at War - with the Australian Regiment page(s) 374
HAGSOC: HAGSOC's South African Graves website
B5177: National Archives of Australia series B5177
B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 9 & 17.3.1900
Ball. Courier: Ballarat Courier newspaper date(s) 11.2.1915 & 10.2.1916
External Link URL1www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2www.australiansatwar.net.au/stories/stories.asp?war=BW&id=141
External Link URL3www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/other/first-aust-regt.htm
External Link URL4nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9052946
External Link URL5nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10534208
External Link URL6nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58578208
External Link URL7nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73949480
External Link URL8nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74499926


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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