Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: George Seymour

Ancestor's date of birth: 25/08/1878

Ancestor's date of death: 11/01/1952

Cause of death: Detail not provided

Service number: 77

Colony or state of enlistment: QLD, place of enlistment: Ipswich

Unit: 1^st Queensalnd Mounted Infantry, B Company

Rank attained in boer war: PTE, date effective: On enlistment

Highest rank attained (if served after war): LSGT, date effective: 29/09/1916

Murray page: 454

Contingent: First Queensland

Ship: Cornwall, Date of sailing: 31/10/1899

Memorial details: Buried at Degilbo cemetery near Biggenden

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps, 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Personal characteristics: Height 1.76 m, weight: 68 kg (1916)

Reasons to go and fight: Previously enlisted in ipswich mounted infantry.

Details of service in war: December 1899 - December 1900 in northwest Cape Colony including victory over rebel band at Sunnyside 1 January 1900, relief of Douglas 2 January 1900, relief of kimberley February 1900. Slightly wounded at Constantia 5 May 1900. Free State, and east Transvaal.

Service and life after the boer war: Returned to Australia 17 January 1901 on the Orient. Was married to Ethel Jane and was living at Biggenden, Queensland in 1916. Enlisted in the 5^th Light Horse AIF (21^st Reinforcement) on 16 March 1916. Promoted Lance Sergeant on the voyage to Egypt. Served in Palestine wih the Australian Provost Corps (Military Police). Returned to Australia 16 March 1919.

Descendant details

Name of descendant: James Edred Innes, Ipswich QLD
Relationship to ancestor: Great nephew