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Australians
in the Boer War
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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 | | GULSON |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Kelvedon |
| Regimental Number | | 84 |
| Rank | | Trooper |
| Unit Name | | New South Wales Citizens' Bushmen |
| State | | NSW |
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown) | |
Murray: 'A'Sqn.
Wallace1: wounded Elands R.
Source:# 65 ?Goulburn NSW, Queen's South Africa Medal in War Memorial Canberra.
Source:# 103 War Memorial Goulburn NSW.
B5204: labourer born 1881 Albury NSW, Queen's South Africa Medal (SA01) died 19.11.1900 ?(sic) sailed 8.5.1901.
Sydney Mail: 'A'Sqn. photos.
B5197: 1 King's South Africa medal clasp (but no KSA medal).
URL2: 'A'Sqn. photo #46.
URL3: Goulburn NSW.
URL4: Trooper K GULSON, one of the Imperial Bushmen, writing to his parents at Goulburn from Beira on 13.4.1900, gives his impressions. He says - "Beira is a very interesting place. We hear nothing of the Portuguese language - the ever-increasing and ever-spreading English has swallowed it completely. There are about 700 white men and innumerable blacks. Nearly every white man appears to have about too blacks under him. The whites, as far as I can see, do nothing but swear at and hammer the blacks. A black laborer gets half a pound of rice a day and a promise of some brass wire at the end of the year. I watched ten of them putting an ordinary post in a hole. There was an awful jabbering for over an hour over it; then it was done very badly. They are wonderfully and tearfully lazy. I sent one on a message. It took him two hours to do the mile. I gave him the tag off a cake of tobacco. These they wear as medals. The Beira railway is what you would expect a Chinaman to make into his garden. It is run on very light rails, about 2ft. apart, which are about as level as a new chum's fence. They are not even kept the same distance apart, but the wheels are so wide they allow a few inches grace. The record speed is six miles an hour, so if we are cramped we can get out and walk ahead. At Bamboo Creek we meet a 3ft. 8in. railway, run by English capital. From there to Salisbury will be easy going."
URL5: letter from Beira dated 13.4.1900 to parents in Goulburn NSW.
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Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 77
Wallace1: The Australians at the Boer War page(s) 268
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 65
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 103
B5204: National Archives of Australia series B5204
Sydney Mail: Sydney Mail newspaper date(s) 3.3.1900
B5197: National Archives of Australia series B5197
Town&Country: Aust. Town and Country journal date(s) 17 & 24.2.1900
Warwick Ar.: Warwick Argus newspaper date(s) 16.6.1900
Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 11.6.1900
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