Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Edward James Dudley

Ancestor's date of birth: 06/01/1880

Ancestor's date of death: 29/09/1967

Cause of Death: Heart Attack

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Farmer

Service Number: 1103

Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Echuca

Unit: 5 VMR

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 15/01/1901

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

Murray Page: 289

Contingent: Fifth Victorian

Ship: Orient, Date of Sailing: 15/02/1901

Memorial details: Detail not supplied

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal clasps

Personal Characteristics: Good

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not supplied

Details of service in war: March 1901 - March 1902 in east Transvaal and Natal frontier, including defeat at Wilmansrust where 18 killed and 42 wounded (12 June 1901), and successful intervention at Onverwacht (4 January 1902); heaviest casualties of any Australian contingent, at Wilmansrust suffered the costliest defeat

Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not supplied

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Ena Brown, Chinchilla QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: granddaughter