Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Frederick Avard

Ancestor's date of birth: 16/08/1878

Ancestor's date of death: 10/10/1900

Cause of Death: Death by wounds - Fighting near Carolina Transvaal RSA

Service Number: 507

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: Maitland

Unit: NSW Lancers

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): KIA in Boer War

Murray Page: 10

Contingent: First New South Wales (NSW Lancers from UK - first Australians to arrive in war zone)

Ship: S.S. Ninnevah from London to Capetown RSA Date of Sailing: 01/08/1899

Memorial details: Buried at British Military Cemetery Ermelo, Transvaal RSA

Awards/Decorations: Queens's South African Medal with eight clasps awarded. Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast.

Personal Characteristics: He was a "Gold Medal" shooter for the NSW Lancers.

Reasons to go and fight: Choose the Military as his Profession.

Details of service in war: . From November 1899 in northern Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal; with French's cavalry division from relief of Kimberley (February 1900) to sweep to Heidelberg.

Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive the war.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Bruce Avard, Kotara NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew.

Name of Descendant: Elizabeth Broadbent, Kotara NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece.

Name of Descendant: Mrs Ann Freeman, Wamberal NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Great Niece.

Name of Descendant: Mrs Pam Huggins, Lambton NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece

Name of Descendant: Mrs Aileen Mansfield, Kotara South NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece.

Name of Descendant: Leslie H Perrett, Mosman NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew

Name of Descendant: Leslie J Perrett, Wahroonga NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Great Nephew.

Name of Descendant: Mrs Leslie Sargeant, Baulkham Hills NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece.

Name of Descendant: David Bruce Avard, Kotara South NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew

Name of Descendant: Robyn Mills, Maryland NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece

Name of Descendant: Lesley Barnes, Toronto NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece

Name of Descendant: Leanne McCarthy (nee Osborne), Brooklyn NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great, great niece

Name of Descendant: William John Osborne, East Maitland NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Great Nephew

Name of Descendant: Rosalie Drew, MERRIWA NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great great Niece.

Name of Descendant: Colleen Avard-Johnston, East Maitland NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great niece

Name of Descendant: Catherine Johnston, East Maitland NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great great niece

Name of Descendant: Stephanie Johnston, East Maitland NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great great niece

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