Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: John Edmund Francis d'Apice
Ancestor's date of birth: 07/07/1877
Ancestor's date of death: 21/01/1952
Cause of Death: Detail not provided
Service Number: 373
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney
Unit: 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: Detail not available
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): LTCOL, Date Effective: Detail not provided
Murray Page: 67
Contingent: Second New South Wales
Ship: Southern Cross, Date of Sailing: 17/01/1900
Other Boer War Service: Royal Artillery
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: Queens Medal (3 clasps), Kings Medal (2 clasps)
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: Transvaal, and western Cape Colony including charge at Diamond Hill (12 June 1900).
Service and life after the Boer War: Transferred to Royal Garrison Artillery in South Africa 1900 and continued to serve until retirement as Lieutenant Colonel. Moved to UK, married and has descendants there. DSO, 1915, Mentioned in Dispatches (twice), 1915 & 1916, 1914-1915 Star, Officer (4th Class with Swords) Order of the White Eagle of Serbia, 1918, Wounded (twice), Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great (with Star). Died Jersey Channel Islands 1952
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Richard John William d'Apice, Sydney NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew
