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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		NORTON
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Charles William
Regimental Number		583
Rank		Corporal
Unit Name		3rd Victorian Bushmen
State		Vic
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: died of wounds at Eland's R. 4.8.1900. Wallace1: headstone. Price1: War Memorials Ballarat & Canberra. Wilcox: ?alleged Boer sympathiser. Wallace2: Eland's R. Kopje: killed in action by shellfire, police investigated pro-Boer remarks, mother lived in S. Africa. Melb. Leader: boundary rider from Elizabeth St. Melbourne, photo. B5177: boundary rider aged 35. B5179: born 1865 a boundary rider from Melbourne Vic. next of kin in Penarth S. Wales. URL3: shot early in the Elands R. seige. URL4: formerly from Melbourne mother in Penarth Wales, died of wounds received at Elands R.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 250 336 Wallace1: The Australians at the Boer War page(s) 259 261 Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 30 Wilcox: National Archives Search Guide - The Boer War page(s) 15 Wallace2: The Circumstances Surrounding the Seige of Elands River Post page(s) 46 193 Kopje: ABWSGoA journal The Kopje date(s) 11.2001 & 3.2002 Melb. Leader: Melbourne Leader newspaper date(s) 10.3.1900 B5177: National Archives of Australia series B5177 B5179: National Archives of Australia series B5179 item A Droogleever: That Ragged Mob - 3VB & 4VIB page(s) 45/46, 107, 487, 522 Register: The Register newspaper South Australia 4.6.1901 Argus: Melbourne Argus newspaper date(s) 21.8.1900
External Link URL1		www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/nmcdb/nmcdb-search.php
External Link URL2		www.naa.gov.au/Publications/research_guides/guides/boerwar/pages/chapter1.htm
External Link URL3		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56081186
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9552785

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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