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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 | | HOLDEN |
| Given Name(s) or Initial(s) | | Albert Thomas |
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| Rank | | Major |
| Unit Name | | 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen |
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Kopje: Chaplain to Beira then returned to Aust., Queen's South Africa Medal, letters.
URL1: Methodist Minister born 1866 in Geelong Vic., an army chaplain from 1898, accompanied 4VIB to S. Africa, Methodist Chaplain General in 1913, WW1 AIF 1916-19 Colonel CBE, died 1935 and buried in Boroondara Cemetery.
URL2: WW1 AIF 1916 Chaplain 1st Class a clerk in holy orders aged 50 from Kew Vic.
URL3: WW1 AIF 1917 Chaplain 4th Class (Hon. 1st Class) a minister of religion aged 51 from Kew Vic.
URL4: Chaplain General in 1930.
URL5: Geelong College Anglo-Boer War memorial.
URL6: In the local Wesleyan Church this evening [22.2.1901], the Rev. Major HOLDEN, chaplain to the Australian Imperial Regiment, will deliver his popular lecture entitled "Fresh from the War." The Box Hill Reporter, referring to a lecture held there on the 8.2.1901, says - "A most entertaining and instructive lecture was given in the Federal Hall, Box Hill, by the Rev. Major HOLDEN. It consisted mainly of a graphic and interesting account of the incidents and occurrences connected with the lecturer's duties as a chaplain accompanying one of the contingents in South Africa. In a clear and forceful manner the major detailed many of the stirring events that there transpired during the campaign. The audience was greatly helped to a due appreciation of matters connected with war as well as those relating to the manners and customs of the natives in various parts of the country by the exhibition and explanation of various curios which the lecturer had secured and brought back with him. In addition to these there were projected on D the screen about 80 instructive lantern views, many of which were prepared from photographs taken by Major HOLDEN himself while in Africa." Admission to the lecture this evening is 1s., children under 13, 6d.
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Kopje: ABWSGoA journal The Kopje date(s) 11.2001
Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 29.9.1930
Healsville YGG: Healsville & Yarra Glen Guardian newspaper date(s) 22.2.1901
| | External Link URL1 | | www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090334b.htm | | External Link URL2 | | www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/6_6_2/pdf/0059.pdf | | External Link URL3 | | www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/6_6_1/pdf/0047.pdf | | External Link URL4 | | ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4200499?searchTerm=boer+veteran | | External Link URL5 | | www.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au/heritage/ANGLO-BOER-WAR-MEMORIAL.ashx | | External Link URL6 | | nla.gov.au/nla.news-article61071369 |
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