Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Edward Tarplee White
Ancestor's date of birth: 12/06/1869
Ancestor's date of death: 06/04/1959
Cause of Death: Age related
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Born in Balmain, NSW
Service Number: 84
Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Brisbane
Unit: 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 461
Contingent: Second Queensland
Ship: Maori King, Date of Sailing: 19/01/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Dreifontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill and SA 1901.
Personal Characteristics: Height: 176 cm, weight: 76 kg, fair hair grey eyes, fresh complexion.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: March 1900 - March 1901 in Free State, west and east Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 3 May 1901 on Tongariro and train from Sydney. No further details provided.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Pamela Ponder, St Ives NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand daughter
