Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Christopher Silas Rawson Lovelock
Ancestor's date of birth: 04/05/1876
Ancestor's date of death: 27/01/1939
Cause of Death: Coronary
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Farmer
Service Number: 80
Colony or State of enlistment: SA, Place of Enlistment: Adelaide
Unit: South Australian Citizens' Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service
Murray Page: 355
Contingent: Third South Australian
Ship: Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 07/03/1900
Memorial details: Buried Snowtown South Australia
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Rhodesia, Rleief of Mafeking, Transvaal and South Africa 1901 clasps, MID
Personal Characteristics: Details not provided.
Reasons to go and fight: Details not provided.
Details of service in war: From April 1900 in Rhodesia and west Transvaal. SACB was part of the second battalion, Rhodesian Field Force. Trooper Lovelock was Mentioned in despatches for taking water to CO Capt Hubbe. Severely wounded at Uitralskop near Mafikeng on 2 March 1901, had two horses shot from under him in same action. Invalided to Australia, arrived 23 July 1901.
Service and life after the Boer War: Was awarded a pension for bullet wound in right hip joint, of 1 shilling and 6 pence (15¢) per day. Returned to farming. Lost farm in Great Depression. set up Ice and Chaff business in Snowtown South Aust. Died of heart attack immediately after the great heat wave of 1939. LOVELOCK Christopher Silas Rawson, Boer War veteran funeral benefit 1939.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Jonathan Russack, Morphett Vale SA
Relationship to Ancestor: GrandsonName of Descendant: Wayne Allan Van Tenac, Panton Hill VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: GrandsonName of Descendant: Kerry June Ellis, Vermont South VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand DaughterName of Descendant: Tracey Mercer, Grassmere VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand DaughterName of Descendant: Fay Dubrich, Somerton Park SA
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand DaughterName of Descendant: Christopher Stanley Rawson Lovelock, Mount Gambier SA
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson
