Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Francis James Morgan

Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1879

Ancestor's date of death: 22/11/1919

Cause of Death: Detail not provided

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Farm hand Road worker Kangaroo Shooter/Boundary Rider

Service Number: 61

Colony or State of enlistment: WA, Place of Enlistment: Perth

Unit: 4^th Western Australian Mounted Infantry (Imperial Bushmen)

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: 416

Contingent: Fourth Western Australian

Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 08/05/1900

Memorial details: Buried at Three Springs WA

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa with Wittebergen, Transvaal, Cape Colony and South Africa 1901 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Conduct and character during service... very good.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: June 1900 - June 1901 in Cape Colony including skirmish at Stinkhoutboom (24 July 1900) and in northern Transvaal including battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt, and advance on Pietersburg and into east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Farmed at Three Springs Western Australia from late 1900's till his death 1919.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Raymond Thomas Morgan, Three Springs WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew

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