Private Joseph Aggett

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Joseph Aggett

Ancestor's date of birth: 25/08/1878

Ancestor's date of death: 29/05/1912

Cause of Death: workplace accident

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Was married to Ethel Bowra 1900 before leaving for the war.

Service Number: 75

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Gosford

Unit: E Company, NSW Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 1900

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

Murray Page: 101

Contingent: Fourth New South Wales

Ship: Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900

Memorial details: Brady's Gully Cemetery, Gosford, NSW

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal and South Africa 1901 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: May 1900 - May 1901 in Rhodesia and west Transvaal including relief of Elands River post (5 August 1900) capture of de la Rey's convoy and guns at Wildfontein (24 March 1901).

Service and life after the Boer War: Arrived back in Sydney on the transport Orient on 17 July 1901. Had sons Reginals Henry Frank and William. Died whilst working at Cessnock in the Hunter Valley NSW.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Keith Aggett, Faulconbridge NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

Name of Descendant: Joan Carlson, Blackbutt NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter

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