Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Hector Ambrose Holmes
Ancestor's date of birth: 02/03/1869
Ancestor's date of death: 28/07/1943
Cause of Death: Anaemia, Adenoma of Prostate, Senility, Myocardial Degeneration.
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Hector Ambrose was Cab Driver for his father, Henry Ambrose Holmes who was a Coach Proprietor at Kingston (now Newtown) and Enmore. His mother was Ann Farrar, both his parents were born in England and came to Australia on the same ship in 1849, marrying later in Sydney.
Service Number: 2015
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney
Unit: 'A' Squadron 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 01/03/1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 126
Contingent: Fifth New South Wales
Ship: British Princess, Date of Sailing: 21/03/1901
Memorial details: Buried at Rookwood, Sydney.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa medal with Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Not known.
Reasons to go and fight: Not known.
Details of service in war: April 1901 - April 1902 in Free State and East Transvaal under including Boer breakthrough at Langverwacht (24 February 1902).
Service and life after the Boer War: Hector Ambrose continued to work as a cab driver and painter after the Boer War. He was an Old Age Pensioner at the time of death aged 76 years. He was buried at Church of England Cemetery, Rookwood on 30 July 1943. He married Mary Gale in 1895 at Newcastle, NSW.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Pamela Anne Valentine, Liverpool NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: First cousin, twice removedName of Descendant: Wendy Elizabeth Valentine, Meadow Flat NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: my grandfather's cousin
