Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Joseph Nehemiah Alcock
Ancestor's date of birth: 20/08/1872
Ancestor's date of death: 01/06/1949
Cause of Death: Heart failure
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Born Kybean NSW. He grew up in Bemboka NSW
Service Number: 946
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Casino
Unit: NSW Lancers
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: Detail not available
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided
Murray Page: 10
Contingent: First New South Wales, Third New South Wales Lancers Draft
Ship: "Australian", Date of Sailing: 16/02/1900
Memorial details: Lancer Memorial Lismore, NSW Lancers' Memorial Museum, Parramatta.
Decorations: Queens South Africa Medal with Belfast Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Orange Free State and Cape Colony clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Excellent military Bearing. Good Horseman.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: March - December 1900 in northern Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal; with French's cavalry division from relief of Kimberley (February 1900) to sweep to Heidelberg (October 1900)
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned from South Africa and participated in a NSW Lancers' Guard at the opening of the First Australian Parliament in Melbourne. Later bought a farm at Casino NSW and in 1916 bought a farm in Tingoora QLD. Retired in 1940 and moved to Torquay Qld a ran a boat hire business until his death in 1949.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Kevin Geoffrey Alcock, CORINDA QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grandson
