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Surname CONWAY
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) John
Regimental Number 150
RankPrivate
Unit Name 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
StateQld
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
B5172: next of kin in Toowoomba Qld.
Source:# 571 John Cornelius CONWAY served in WW1 as John WALKER, his AIF record shows service with 5QMI in South Africa, enlisted as 1554 with 12th Reinforcements for 5LH but failed to embark instead reenlisting as 5069 with 13th Reinforcements for 19Bn. AIF, killed in action 23.12.1916 in France
URL1: 1554 Private 12th Reinforcements 12LH a labourer aged 42 from Toowoomba Qld.
URL2: 5069 Private WALKER, John a labourer aged 41 from Toowoomba Qld.
URL3: 5069 Private CONWAY, John Cornilius (John WALKER) 19Bn. AIF, died 23.12.1916 memorial panel 88 26 Villers Bretonneux-France, enlisted in Toowoomba Qld.
URL5: true family name WALKER John.
URL6: WW1 AIF 5069 13/19Bn. WALKER John a labourer aged 41 in 1915 born in Drayton Qld. next of kin father James Wm. WALKER in Toowoomba, no prior service claimed, killed in action 23.12.1916.
URL8: Toowoomba Qld., dangerously ill with enteric.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 496
B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 571
B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
Syd. Herald : Sydney Morning Herald newspaper date(s) 1.8.1901
External Link URL1www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/10_10_3/pdf/0120.pdf
External Link URL2www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/23_36_2/pdf/0101.pdf
External Link URL3www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL4aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=310961
External Link URL5aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=60540
External Link URL6naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3281318&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL7www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL8nla.gov.au/nla.news-page1343236


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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