Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Edgar Whetter Simpson

Ancestor's date of birth: 03/03/1880

Ancestor's date of death: 1961

Cause of Death: Not Known

Service and Life Before the Boer War: No previous military service.

Service Number: 1896

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Not known

Unit: B Squadron 3^rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles

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

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.

Murray Page: 129

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 15/03/1901

Memorial details: Detail not Provided.

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.

Reasons to go and fight: Not known.

Details of service in war: This regiment was attached to Colonel Remington's column from 2 May 1901 to the 28 April 1902. The Regiment took part in operations in the Eastern Transvaal and Eastern Orange River Colony in 1901-2. It also took part in several drives in the early part of 1902; the principal one, the Harrismith drive, resulted in the capture of 251 prisoners, 26,000 head of cattle and 2,000 horses. A machine gun section was attached to it, vide Nominal Roll." Note: extracts from The Official Record of the War in South Africa by Lt colonel P L Murray pages 123-124.

Service and life after the Boer War: Occupation Farrier on return from the Boer War.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Ian Jack Moody, NORTH BEACH WALLAROO SA
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Nephew

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