Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Frederick Gibson
Ancestor's date of birth: 12/02/1881
Ancestor's date of death: 28/03/1951
Cause of Death: Natural causes.
Service Number: 543
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: B Sqn NSW Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: Detail not available
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided
Murray Page: 95
Contingent: 4th New South Wales
Ship: Not known, Date of Sailing: 28/02/1900
Ship: Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal and 5 clasps
Personal Characteristics: A wool classer by trade. He was a direct descendent of George James Gibson (convict) who following a conviction of theft of "engraving plates" in 1822' was transported to NSW in 1823, for life, aboard the ship Surry. Subsequent to the granting of a conditional pardon in 1843 went on to establish a large grazing spread in the NSW Macquarie Marshes. Frederick was one of 10 children. His older brother 127 Trooper Geroge Henry Flood Gibson also served in this conflict and was killed in action near Ottoshoop on 16 August 1900.
Reasons to go and fight: It is presumed, the link to grazing and the NSW outback, Fred's occupation of wool classer and work with horses, along with his brothers enlistment, led to his enlistment.
Details of service in war: May 1900-May 1901 in Rhodesia under Carington and west Transvaal including capture of de la Rey's convoy and guns at Wildfontein (24 March 1901).
Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not provided.
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