Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Arthur William McManis
Ancestor's date of birth: 10/10/1881
Ancestor's date of death: 29/06/1968
Cause of Death: Old Age
Service Number: 824
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: NSW
Unit: NSW Lancers
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: Detail not provided
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided
Murray Page: 12
Contingent: NSW Lancers
Ship: S.S. Ninnevah from London to Capetown, Date of Sailing: 01/08/1899
Memorial details: Boer War memorial Parramatta Park, NSW Lancers Memorial Museum, Lancer Barracks Parramatta NSW
Decorations: His medals were destroyed in a house fire.
Personal Characteristics: He was a Lancer!
Reasons to go and fight: He was a Lancer!
Details of service in war: He sailed to England for training with the NSW Lancers. While they were in England war broke out in South Africa and the Lancers sailed from England landing in Capetown. He served in every campaign during the Boer War with the Lancers [November 1899 - December 1900 in northern Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal; with General French's cavalry division from relief of Kimberley (February 1900) to sweep to Heidelberg (October 1900).] He eventually returned to Sydney at conclusion of the war.
Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not provided.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Zena King, Cremoine Junction NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Daughter
