Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Patrick Verdon
Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1868
Ancestor's date of death: 17/01/1901
Cause of Death: Enteric Fever- Pretoria
Service Number: 521
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Narrandera
Unit: A Squadron, NSW Citizens' Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive the Boer War
Murray Page: 78,204
Contingent: Third New South Wales
Ship: Atlantian or Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 28/02/1900
Memorial details: Church Street cemetery, Pretoria; RC Section, grave 74. Initial A on iron cross grave marker. His name is also on the BWM at Memorial Gardens, East St, Narrandera NSW.
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with with Relief of Mafeking and Orange Free State clasps (?).
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: From April 1900 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal including defence of Elands River Post (4-16 August 1900), and in northern Transvaal, great De Wet hunt (February - March 1901) and advance on Petersburg. Died of enteric fever (typhoid) at Pretoria 17 January 1901.
Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive the Boer War
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Ann Teasdale, Wodonga VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Neice
