Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: George Edwin Huckstepp

Ancestor's date of birth: 26/07/1879

Ancestor's date of death: 11/06/1945

Cause of Death: Age Related

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Local to the Campbelltown area, NSW. Was listed as a labourer and blacksmith on his enlistment documents. Murray records his name as Huckstopp.

Service Number: 366

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney

Unit: 1 Section, D Coy, NSW Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: CPL, Date Effective: 01/04/1902

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

Murray Page: 100 and 178

Contingent: Fourth New South Wales and Second Australian

Ship: Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900

Ship: Manhattan or Englishman, Date of Sailing: 01/04/1902

Other Boer War Service: Served as No 146 Corporal in the 3^rd Australian Commonwealth Horse

Memorial details: Recorded on the Honour Roll of St Peters Anglican Church Campbelltown, NSW

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, Rhodesia, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Height 173 cm of medium complexion with blue eyes and brown hair.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: May 1900 - May 1901 in Rhodesia and west Transvaal including capture of de la Rey's convoy and guns at Wildfontein (24 March 1901) with NSWIB. No action was seen with the 3ACH, some were used to escort delegates to the peace conference.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned with 3ACH on the ill fated Drayton Grange in 1902. After the war was a gardener and nurseryman with the government nursery at Campbelltown and the Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Maurice Maskell, North Epping NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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