Oz-Boer Database - Acknowledgements

Australians in the Boer War
Oz-Boer Database Project

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Acknowledgements
Without the efforts of earlier researchers and authors there would be little data to make available online today. Thank you to all those whose work has been consulted so far.
Pembroke Murray (for the Australian official records )
Robin McLachlan and the Australian War Memorial (for the Index to Murray)
The AWM again (for their Roll of Honour and Nominal Roll)
NMCSA, DVA and HAGSOC (for the South African war graves site)
Rob. Nelson (for the transcriptions of Murray on the Perth DPS site)
John Price (for his Vic. casualties and Scottish Horse books)
Laurence Field (for his book)
Robert Wallace (for his books)
Elyne Mitchell (for her book)
Philip Vernon (for his chapter on the South African War)
Richmond Cubis (for his chapter South Africa 1900-1901 "The Lost Darlings")
Martin Buckley (for his chapter Service in South Africa)
Stan Kaplan (for his QSA Relief of Mafeking Roll)
Richard Stowers (for his book)
Mildred Dooner (for her book)
John Wilson (for his New Zealand material)
NZ Ministry of Culture and Heritage (for the NZ Contingents database)
John Burridge Military Antiques (for their catalogues)
Regal Coin Company Pty Ltd (for their catalogues)
Neil Smith, Mostly Unsung, Melbourne (for his book on the BMI and catalogues)
Cameron Simpson (for his book on 8LH Regt.)
Floranelle Bird and the Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust, RSA (for cemetery photographs)
Reg. Watson (for his book on the Tasmanian casualties)
Allan Fogg (for his book on 5QIB)
The Anglo-Boer War Study Group of Australia for "The Kopje" & their Centenary Exhibition
Craig Wilcox (for his NAA guide)
Max Chamberlain (for his map history)
Cheryl Mongan (for the Scottish Horse enrolments)
Geoff Howe (for his soldiers' letters book)
Maj. WT Reay (for his book)
Bill Woolmore (for his book on the Bushveldt Carbineers)
Eric Tachibana (for the search engine used on the original site), and
the many other people who lent books, contributed data, suggested sources, provided links, helped with computing problems etc.

Those whose disproportionate contribution to the project warrants particular mention include:

Robin McLachlan (for his index to Murray)
Trish Downes (for the original search scripts and her work on the SA Graves site)
PCUG volunteer, Owen Cook, (for converting the system to SQLite and so much more)
Russell Stern (for his research in contemporary Australian newspapers)
John Wilson (for his NZ Contingents data)
Joe West (for his Bushveldt Carbineers roll)
David Fox (for extracting information for Reay)
Jim Wallace (for Australians in the Canadian Scouts and South African Light Horse)
Steve Becker (for researching the 1AIF records for those claiming Boer War service)
David Deasey (Source: #1121) from the National Boer War Memorial Association Inc.
Pat Raymond (Source: #1286) Research Officer Bega Valley Genealogy Society, and
the TIP admins (for letting me use CGI).

Colin Roe
23 December 2012

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