Private George Ingarfield

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: George Percy Ingarfield

Ancestor's date of birth: 1879 (full date of birth unknown)

Ancestor's date of death: Not stated

Cause of Death: Not stated.

Service Number: 113

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

Unit: 1^st Queensland Mounted Infantry

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

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

Murray Page: 455

Contingent: First Queensland

Ship: Cornwall, Date of Sailing: 01/11/1899

Memorial details: Queensland Mounted Infantry Museum, Enoggera QLD

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps

Personal Characteristics: No details provided

Reasons to go and fight: Family conflict

Details of service in war: December 1899 - December 1900 in northwest Cape Colony including victory over Boer commando at Sunnyside (1 January 1900), Free State, and east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: No details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Curtis Hill, Roseville Chase NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great nephew (he was my grandmother's brother)

Name of Descendant: Warwick Hill, Turramurra NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew

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