Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Dudley Castle Oldham

Ancestor's date of birth: 30/04/1878

Ancestor's date of death: 20/04/1917

Cause of Death: Died from battle wounds 20/04/1917 France.

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Born Gawler South Australia.

Service Number: 12 (1 SAMR) and 154(BVC)

Colony or State of enlistment: SA Place of Enlistment: South Australia

Unit: 1 South Australian mounted Rifles and Bushvelt Carbineers.

Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 1901

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): PTE, Date Effective: 1915

Murray Page: 345

Contingent: First South Australian

Ship: Medic, Date of Sailing: 02/11/1899

Memorial: Grave Estaples War Cemetery France XIX E2

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa medal with Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal clasps; King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps. British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: November 1899 - October 1900 in northern Cape Colony, Free State and in east Transvaal with 1 South Australian mounted Rifles where he was appointed Lance Corporal. After this service he joined the Bushveldt Carbineers as Field Intelligence Sgt No 154, serving in the Spelonken, an area to the east of what is now Polokwane.

Service and life after the Boer War: Remained in South Africa, married Miriam Mildred Krog. Served as Private 10414 in the 3^rd Regiment (Transvaal and Rhodesia) South African Infantry in World War 1. Died of wounds 20 April 1917. His brother Major Edward Castle Oldham who was killed Lone Pine Gallipoli 25/04/1915.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Yvonne Foster (nee Oldham), Golwa North SA
Relationship to Ancestor: great niece