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Murray: severely wounded at Onverwacht 4.1.1902.
B5172: next of kin in Hemmant Qld.
URL2: left behind in hospital wounded at Newcastle when 5QIB returned to Aust.
URL3: The following Queenslanders, who arrived from South Africa in the Columbia, reached Brisbane by the mail train last week [c5.1902], most of them being members of the Fifth Contingent - Lieutenant TUCKER, 268 Sergeant H SMITH, 201 Sergeant BECKETT, 233 Sergeant EGAN, 333 Sergeant RAMSAY, Privates 473 MARSDEN, 868 DAVIS, ARMSTRONG, 600 SWAIN, 147 WALDEN, 356 HODGE, 448 HOHEURN, 411 W JEFFREY, 501 J FOX, 108 MORLEY, 612 MACFARLANE, 92 A PRICE (Sixth Contingent), WALSH, WALLIS, WILSON, 63 BATES, 317 ANDERSON, 186 NEVILL, 407 M COLEMAN, BARLOW, 235 WAKEFIELD, 61 WHITTAKER, 155 PALMER, 309 MARMONT, SMITH, 4 WANZA, 248 M CURTIS, GUILFOYLE, Corporals WESBILL, HARTE and 420 LOSEBY.
URL4: LONDON, Jan 11 [1902]. In the fighting at the end of last week, when Generals PLUMER and SPENS and Colonel PULTENEY attacked a considerable Boer force under Commandants Chris BOTHA and OPPERMAN, and drove it from a position north of Amersfoort, in the South Eastern Transvaal, a detachment commanded by Major JM VALLENTIN, of the Somersetshire Light Infantry, who was attached to the South African Constabulary, suffered severely. Major VALLENTIN and 18 men being killed and 5 officers and 28 men wounded. The following casualties occurred among the Fifth Queensland Bushmen, who formed part of Major VALLENTIN's detachment - Killed - Private A BELIN. - Severely Wounded - Captain H CARTER, Lieutenant J HIGGINSON, Sergeant J SHANNON, Corporals C BYRNE, F EFENWICK (sic) and B SMITH, Bugler W BUSBIE, and Privates D ARNOLD, H DOBE, E NORMAN, AE MURRAY, W PALMER and F SINCLAIR. - Slightly Wounded - Privates W BATCHELOR, J MACARTIE and G WATERTON.
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