Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Louis Frances John Lette

Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1871

Ancestor's date of death: 18/10/1900

Cause of Death: Enteric (Typhoid) Fever

Service and Life Before the Boer War: No details provided.

Service Number: 81

Colony or State of enlistment: TAS, Place of Enlistment: Launceston

Unit: 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen

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

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive the Boer War.

Murray Page: 559 and 576

Contingent: Third Tasmanian Contingent

Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 26/04/1900

Memorial details: Church of England Military Cemetery, Pretoria, South Africa. Australian War Memorial Canberra.

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal Clasp.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: From June 1900 in Free State and northern Transvaal including ambush at Zwartkloof (1 September 1900). Died of enteric fever at Pretoria 18 October 1900.

Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive the Boer War.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Shirley A Lette, Scottsdale TAS
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece

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