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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		KING
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Oscar David
Regimental Number		54
Rank		Private
Unit Name		1st Victorian Mounted Infantry
State		Vic
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: 1Vic. Infantry Coy. Lance Corporal 11.1899, Corporal 1.2.1900, killed or died. Price1: killed in action at Edendale on 16.7.1900, War Memorials Ballarat & Canberra. Source:# 54 grave in Diamond Hill Cemetery. Reay: killed in action at Hatherly on 17.7.1900. B5177: soldier aged 22. B5179: soldier from Queenscliff Vic. URL6: dangerously wounded at Elands R. URL7: Private Oscar David KING, of the First Victorian contingent, who was recently severely wounded near Hatherley, has died from his injuries.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 222 226 336 Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 19 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 54 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 Queenslander: The Queenslander newspaper date(s) 28.7.1900 West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 23.7.1900
External Link URL1		www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2		www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/za00700.php
External Link URL3		awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL4		www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/memv0019.php
External Link URL5		picasaweb.google.co.uk/boerwarpics/Ozbpics#5299264885145392882
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18553311
External Link URL7		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23840458

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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