Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Leslie Reginald Austin Hopkinson

Ancestor's date of birth: 1882

Ancestor's date of death: 26/09/1922

Cause of Death: Unknown

Service Number: 529

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided

Unit: 1NSWMR

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 03/1901

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

Murray Page: 68, 116

Contingent: Second and Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Southern Cross, Date of Sailing: 17/01/1900

Ship: Custodian or Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 17/03/1901

Other Boer War Service: Regtl No 7, Trooper 2NSWMR

Memorial details: plot 5135 section 19 Waverley NSW Cemetry

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal and Cape Colony clasps. King's South Africa Medal with SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: From February 1900 with 1NSWMR in Free State, Transvaal, and western Cape Colony including charge at Diamond Hill (12 June 1900) until invalided to Australia arriving 17 August 1900. April 1901 - April 1902 with 2NSWMR in west then east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Sadly no details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Harold Reginald Hopkinson, Frenchs Forest NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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