Private Frederick Kollosche

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Frederick Paul Kollosche

Ancestor's date of birth: Not stated

Ancestor's date of death: Not stated

Cause of Death: Not stated

Service Number: 77

Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Not stated

Unit: Victorian Imperial Bushmen

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

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

Murray Page: 261

Contingent: Fourth Victorian

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

Memorial details: Buried in Wonthagi.

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Rhodesia, Transvaal, Cape Colony and SA 1901 clasps (presumed entitlement)

Personal Characteristics: Not stated

Reasons to go and fight: Not stated

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

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 12 July 1901 on the Orient. Lived in Belgrave Victoria Passed away in Wonthagi. (Note by descendant: I am afraid that this is all the information I have on this gentleman. he is my husband's great grandfather and that is all I know about him.)

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Jennifer Redding, Monbulk VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: great-grandaughter-in-law

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