Lance Sergeant John Smith

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: John Henry Smith
Ancestor's date of birth: 29/08/1881
Ancestor's date of death: 02/11/1960
Cause of Death: Coronary Atherosclerosis
Service Number: 186 and 206
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided.
Unit: 2^nd NSW Mounted Rifles and 3^rd NSW Imperial Bushmen (formed in South Africa)
Rank attained in Boer War: LSGT, Date Effective: 01/05/1902
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No subsequent military service
Murray Page: 120 and 162
Contingent: Fifth New South Wales
Ship: Custodian or Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 15/03/1901
Memorial details: Interred on the 4th November 1960 at the Roman Catholic Rookwood Cemetery NSW
Decorations: King's South Africa Medal with 1901 and 1902 clasps
Personal Characteristics: Excellent
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: Served under Major General Fetherstonhaugh in Western and Eastern Transvaal. Principal operations were against the Boer Generals De la Rey,Kemp,Potgeitiers and Vermaas.
Service and life after the Boer War: Arrived home from the Boer War on the 4^th June 1902. Retired from the Police Force as Police Inspector.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Edith Daphne Eggleton, Earlwood NSW 2206
Relationship to Ancestor: Daughter
Name of Descendant: Megan Hay, Noosa Heads Qld
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand Daughter
Name of Descendant: Maree D'ooria, Castle Hill NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand Daughter
Name of Descendant: Kim Rowston, Dural NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand Daughter
Name of Descendant: John Robert McClure, Port Macquarie NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson
Name of Descendant: Kathleen Mc Clure, Port Macquarie NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Daughter
Name of Descendant: Edith Grace Ashton nee Smith, Stony Creek QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand daughter
Name of Descendant: Joseph Donnelly, Stony Creek QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Granson
Name of Descendant: Raymond Claude Mc Clure, Kirrawee NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Granson
Name of Descendant: Isabel Millicent Sherwin nee Smith, Kingaroy QLD 4610
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand daughter
Name of Descendant: Roger Thomas Ashton, Coominya QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson
Name of Descendant: Colleen Moscatelly, Woy Woy NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand daughter
Name of Descendant: John David Graham, Lennox Heads NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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