Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: James Samuel Lugg

Ancestor's date of birth: 04/09/1874 at Mt Moriac

Ancestor's date of death: 21/04/1926

Cause of Death: cancer

Service Number: 514

Colony or State of enlistment: VIC Place of Enlistment:

Unit: 4^th Victorian Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR (Bugler), Date Effective: On enlistment

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.

Murray Page: 271

Contingent: Fourth Victorian

Ship: Victorian, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900

Memorial details: Buried in Geelong Eastern Cemetry.

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Rhodesia, Transvaal, Cape Colony and SA 1901 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: He had 8 Brothers and 4 Sisters, Height 172 cm.

Reasons to go and fight: He joined the bushman contingent because he was a farmer and could ride horses.

Details of service in war: May 1900 - June 1901 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal, Cape Colony including relief of Philipstown (11 February 1901), capture of Boer guns at Read's Drift (23 February), and capture of Boer patrol near Doornkloof (1 March 1901). May have been part of Rhodesian Garrison, mid 1901.

Service and life after the Boer War: Left for Australia from East London on 22 June 1901 Arrived home 12 July 1901 Discharged 31 July 1902 He married Eliza Hunt in 1906. They worked a farm at Waurn Ponds and had 2 children: Isabel and Glen. He died on the 20 April 1926 and is buried in Geelong Eastern Cemetry.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Lorraine Glenys Williams, Rosebud VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter

Return to Descendant Database