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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		HARVEY
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		James
Regimental Number		244
Rank		Private
Unit Name		5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
State		Qld
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		B5172: next of kin in Insch Aberdeen Scot. URL1: Boer War veteran funeral benefit 1957. URL3: discharged for employment 26.3.1902 when 5QIB returned to Aust. URL4: Jim HARVEY aged 88 of Adelaide SA holidaying in Perth WA in 1955, Boer War 5QIB, joined water police in 1899 then to Menzies WA with mounted police in 1902, later CIB in Perth Central and Albany & Cue before back to Kalgoorlie in early 1920s, for many years police clerk in Kalgoorlie Dist. Police Inspector's office.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 498 B5172: National Archives of Australia series B5172 D4549: National Archives of Australia series D4549 Bne. Courier: Brisbane Courier newspaper date(s) 16.5.1902 MirrorP.: Mirror (Perth WA) newspaper date(s) 1.1.1955
External Link URL1		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Items_listing.asp?S=1&F=1&O=0&T=I&C=72
External Link URL2		www.archives.qld.gov.au/Researchers/CollectionsDownloads/Documents/boer_war_index_id18351.pdf
External Link URL3		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19184287
External Link URL4		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75792334

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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