Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Ewen Wanliss

Ancestor's date of birth: 24/08/1873

Ancestor's date of death: 13/04/1966

Cause of Death: Old Age

Service Number: 327

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

Unit: 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman

Rank attained in Boer War: LT, Date Effective: 20/08/1900

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No record of post Boer Was service

Murray Page: 253, 258, 267

Contingent: Fourth Victorian

Ship: Victorian, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900

Ship: Date of Sailing: 01/01/19

Other Boer War Service: Nil.

Memorial details: Buried at Ballarat Cemetery NSW

Awards/Decorations: QSA 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, SA1901.

Personal Characteristics: Excellent Sportsman, very good at Cricket Football and Golf.

Reasons to go and fight: Not Known

Details of service in war: May 1900 - June 1901 in Rhodesia west Transvaal under Cape Colony under Henniker including relief of Philipstown (11 February 1901), capture of Boer guns at Read's Drift (23 February), and capture of Boer patrol near Doornkloof (1 March 1901); contingent separated mid 1900-early 1901, may have undertaken garrison duty in Rhodesia.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 12 July 1901 on the Orient no further details of his life provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Thomas Wanliss, Blackburn VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Nephew

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