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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		BLACKHAM
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		John McKnight
Regimental Number		31819
Rank		Corporal
Unit Name		2nd Scottish Horse
State
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Price1: killed Dullstroom 1.5.1901, Ballarat War Memorial. Price2: killed in action, Queen's South Africa medal and 4 clasps. Source:# 75 died 30.4.1901. Source:# 268 Trooper from Melbourne, killed in action Roode Kraal 30.4.1901. URL2: killed near Roodekrantz 3.4.1901. URL4: telegram to Vic., John MacKnight BLACKHAM killed at Roodekraal 30.4.1901.
Source References		Price1: They Proved to all the Earth page(s) 87 Price2: Southern Cross Scots page(s) 121 171 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 75 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 268 Melb. Age: Age newspaper, Melbourne date(s) 9.5.1901 Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 9.5.1901
External Link URL1		www.lib.sun.ac.za/roh/roh.exe?MenuItem=Person&PersonNumber=7620
External Link URL2		www.roll-of-honour.com/Databases/BoerDetailed/index.html
External Link URL3		www.britishmedals.us/files/127scothorse.htm
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14383856

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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