Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: George Wheadon Williams
Ancestor's date of birth: 01/07/1879
Ancestor's date of death: 19/11/1929
Cause of Death: Detail not provided
Service Number: 589
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Leongatha
Unit: Victorian Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlustment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War Service
Murray Page: 250
Contingent: Third Victorian
Ship: Euryalus, Date of Sailing: 10/03/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided.
Decorations: QSA and five clasps
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: April 1900 - April 1901 as part of Vialls' 3rd Bushmen Regt in Rhodesia under Carington, west Transvaal including skirmish at Koster River where six killed (22 July 1900), and under Plumer in northern Transvaal including battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt including charge at Wolwekuil (14 February 1901) and advance on Pietersburg.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: June 1901 on Morayshire, married Minnie 26 Aug 1902, no further details provided.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Russell Thomas Dawe, Apollo Bay VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: GrandsonName of Descendant: Elizabeth Margaret Heath nee Williams, Rowville VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: grand daughter
