Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: George Scainker Paul
Ancestor's date of birth: 1848
Ancestor's date of death: 25/08/1937
Cause of Death: Old Age, Senility
Service Number: 1123 and 23
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: Muswellbrook
Unit: NSW Imperial Bushmen and 1 bn Australian Commonwealth Horse
Rank attained in Boer War: CPL, Date Effective: not known
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): CPL
Murray Page: 104 and 169
Contingent: Fourth New South Wales and First Australian
Ship: Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900
Ship: Custodian, Date of Sailing: 18/02/1902
Memorial details: Buried at Wallabdah NSW - no headstone
Decorations: Queen and King's South Africa medals with clasps. British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Personal Characteristics: A soldier.
Reasons to go and fight: Had served in the Ashanti War, 1873-4; Zulu War, 1874; Tel el Kebir, 1882.
Details of service in war: 1900 - May 1901 with the NSW Imperial Bushmen in Rhodesia and west Transvaal including capture of de la Rey's convoy and guns at Wildfontein (24 March 1901). March - May 1902 with the Australian Commonwealth Horse on Natal border and west Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Wife, Mrs Mary Paul, Wallabadah, New South Wales. Enlisted in the AIF for service in the first world war 18 October 1915. Rank on enlistment was Corporal. Unit: Headquarters No 4 Tunnelling Company. Embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A69 Warilda on Sydney, 22 May 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 18 July 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 15 October 1916. Admitted to 26th General Hospital, Etaples, 6 December 1916 (debility); transferred to England 13 December 1916, and admitted to Dover Hospital; discharged to No 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs, 16 December 1916. Marched out to No 2 command Depot, Weymouth, 20 November 1916. Commenced return to Australia from Plymouth on board HT 'Beltana' for discharge, 17 February 1917; arrived Sydney, 15 May 1917; discharged (medically unfit), 14 June 1917. Miscellaneous details Real age: 69.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Lillian Grace Price, Cartwright NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great grand daughter by marriage
