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Murray: 'C'Sqn.
B5204: station hand born 1880 Isle of Wight Eng., Queen's South Africa Medal (SA01).
URL1: Echuca Vic. memorial.
Source:# 1076 lied about his age to enlist as not born until 1882, WWI served in Egypt, Gallipoli, France & Belgium, awarded Meritorious Service Medal for improvements to sledges used to remove the injured from the battlefields in France, promoted to Sergeant, Coy. Sergeant Major and Warrant Officer, later trained some of the land army during WWII, died in 1965 in Gulgong NSW.
URL2: WW1 AIF 6455 Sergt. 2Div. Train commissioned 2nd. Lieut. MSM.
URL3: WW1 AIF 6455 Sergt. 2Div. Train 17AASC, a grazier aged 33 in 1915 born in Freshwater Is. of Wight Eng., next of kin wife in Brightstone IoW, Vic. Rangers 2.5 years Rhodesian Field Force ?Artillery & NSW Bushmen 23 months, 11.12.1917 CSM (WO1), Mentioned in Despatches 9.4.1917 and awarded MSM LG 30450 1.1.1918, 2Lt. 31.1.1919 Lieut. Education Service 30.4.1919, returned to Aust. per 'Orsova" 18.7.1919, MSM lost in France and replaced in 1920, 1962 correspondence with Repatriation Dept. Sydney.
URL4: WW2 N349841 2Lieut. VDC, farmer born 1884 (elsewhere 14.3.1882) at Freshwater IoW, enlisted 3.5.1942 served from 27.3.1943 to 30.9.1945.
URL5: 'C'Sqn. photo #61.
URL6: Moama NSW.
URL7: Echuca 19.2.1900. On Saturday evening [17.2.1900] the School of Arts, Moama, was crowded with friends of three young men - Messrs. A FORTESCUE, J CHANTER and PARR, who are members of the New South Wales Bushmen's Contingent, which sails next Saturday for South Africa. "The Mayor (Alderman WJ MARTIN) presided, and after enthusiastic and patriotic speeches had been made, presented each man with a horse and a medal. They left by the afternoon train to-day for Denliquin en route to Sydney.
URL8: Yesterday [7.6.1905] Echuca witnessed the function of the unveiling of the monument, erected on the square in front of the Supreme Court, in commemoration of the soldiers from Echuca and Moama who volunteered and fought in battles of the Queen and the Empire in the South African war. ... One inscription reads "Presented by the residents to the Borough Council to commemorate the services of our citizen soldiers in the South African war, 1899-01." The following names are inscribed - Captain CJ WILSON, Sergeants JH RULE, HA KERANS, WK GRADY, Corporals R MCGROUTHER, T PITT, Privates E KERANS, CT EARNSHAW, E EARNSHAW, Troopers R JORDAN, D JORDAN, G HOWELL, JP TONER R SMITH, EA PHILP, JM DAVEY, D MCPHERSON, B ROFE, A TULLOCH, RO BELL, WH WALLIS, JM WHIDBURN, JO CHANTER, A FORTESCUE, WH TURNER, W PARR, W COLLINS & WJ LAWTON.
URL9: Moama Bushmen - Private John CHANTER (son of Mr. JM CHANTER MP) and Private FORTESCUE (son of Senior Constable FORTESCUE, stationed at Moama), have been finally accepted in the Bushmen's Corps and have gone into camp [c2.1900].
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