Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Frederick Herbert Edwards
Ancestor's date of birth: Not provided
Ancestor's date of death: 22/12/1945
Cause of Death: Not provided
Service Number: 349
Colony or State of enlistment: SA Place of Enlistment: Adelaide
Unit: Fifth South Australian Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 01/01/1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Not provided
Murray Page: 370
Contingent: Fifth South Australian
Ship: Ormazan, Date of Sailing: 09/02/1901
Memorial details: Buried at Brighton cemetery South Australia.
Decorations: Queen's south Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Height approx 182 cm
Reasons to go and fight: Not known or included in his 'war diary'.
Details of service in war: March 1901 - March 1902 in Transvaal, Free State including defence of Graspan where five dead (6 June 1901) and charge at Grootvlei (2 August 1901). Nine of the contingent were killed or died of wounds, 10 died of disease. Follow his war in detail in his War Diary which covers his service from leaving Adelaide, it concludes on 27 March 1902.
Service and life after the Boer War: Lived at Glenelg South Aust Sales Representative Deceased approx 22 Dec 1945 Buried at Brighton cemetery South Aust.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Christopher Maynard Stokes, Grange SA
Relationship to Ancestor: Eldest Grandson
