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Murray: Details per 'Britannic' (all but one of the Details had served in 3rd or 4th Qld. Contingents). Killed in action on 3.2.1902 at Amersfoort.
Source:# 22 War Memorial Brisbane.
Fogg: RUDALL/RUDDELL, 'Britannic' Draft 5QMI, captured 3.2.1902 killed in action at Amersfoort 3.2.1902.
Smith2: RUTHALL 3QMI & Doyle's Scouts, King's South Africa Medal and 2 clasps.
URL4: Cpl. FLINT & Pte. RUDHALL 5QIB reported missing declared killed in action at Omerspoort 3.2.1902.
Source:# 1445 Benjamin RUDHALL (born Barnet RUDHALL at Birmingham Eng. in 1854) served before his marriage in the 2nd Dragoons - according to his Chelsea Pensioners discharge documents as Pte. ?1406. He served 10 years and 165 days in the British Army - joining in mid 1872 and discharged by purchase on 30.12.1882. He married Annie SMITH in 12.1883 giving his occupation on the marriage record as "Stamper". They emigrated to Queensland between then and 7.1884 when their first child was born in Brisbane. Benjamin worked for some time as a warder on St Helena Island, but had to resign when his wife suffered extended ill health. TB would claim her in the end, just seven months after Ben was captured by the Boers near Amersfoort and executed (along with T FLINT). They had no relations in Brisbane so the family was split up - the elder children went into service and the younger ones into a home. Photo of Ben (and Annie) with Ben in his military uniform - possibly taken just before his 'second' tour? Medal photo is (apparently) Ben's Queen's South Africa medal with 4 clasps (CC Rhod. OFS & Tvl), now cared for by his great great grandson. Statement of 23.5.1902 by James Burns MACFARLANE 612 6QIB for the Court of Inquiry into both Ben RUDHALL and Thomas FLINT's deaths - "On the 3rd February last these two men were on our extreme right flank, and had no time to retire, being cut off and taken prisoners. A Boer Prisoner captured by us a week or two afterwards, near the scene of the old fight, declared that Ben RUDHALL was shot through the back of the head and Tom FLINT was shot through his back, and that he buried the bodies. He also stated that they were both killed in action. We of course know differently. Sergt Major WILLMOTT will be here in a few days, and he has RUDHALL's kit, and can corroborate my statement."
URL5: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record.
URL6: Private Edward SAMS, Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles, died of enteric at Heilbron; Private Ravid Ross CRICHTON, Second New South Wales Mounted Rifles, died of enteric at Standerton; Lance-Corporal DALLISTON, Fifth West Australia Mounted Rifles, was killed at Waterval River, on the 1st instant [1.2.1902]; Privates. Robert ALLDA and Arthur HAMMOND, Fifth West Australian Mounted Rifles, were killed, and Private Alfred ABBOTT was dangerously wounded, in the same engagement. Private JF DUFFY, Fifth Victorian Mounted Rifles, severely wounded on Christmas Day at Balmoral. Chaplain FOREMAN, Third New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent, has sailed for England; Privates John CONSIDINE and Wm. DAVIES, New Zealand Mounted Rifles, wounded at Charlestown. Private WC JACKSON, Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric at Bloemfontein. Private J DURE, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles, has been accidentally severely wounded in the thigh. It is believed that Corporal T FLINT and Private Ben RUDHEAL have been captured at Amerspoort. Lieutenant George Augustus MORRIS, of the Sixth West Australian Mounted Rifles, was killed at Rolspruit. Private A DALEY, Third New South Wales Mounted Rifles, has died of enteric at Norvalspont. Private Bertram COCHRANE, of the South Australian Bushmen, bas died of dysentery at Capetown.
URL7: Corporal T FLINT and Private Ben. RUDHALL, members of the Fifth Queensland Contingent, are believed to have been captured at Amerspoort.
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