Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Richard Allan
Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided
Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided
Cause of Death: Not Stated
Service Number: Not available
Colony or State of enlistment: Not Applicable, Place of Enlistment: New Zealand
Unit: Canterbury Special Section
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): PTE, Date Effective: Detail not provided
Murray Page: NZ Embarkation Data Base
Contingent: 6th New Zealand Contingent
Ship: Cornwall, Date of Sailing: 30/01/1901
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: QSA Clasps Transvaal, SA 1901
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: In December 1900, the New Zealand government agreed to replace the First contingent and provide 300 men to reinforce the other contingents. Later, after men of the Second and Third Contingents had protested about the length of their service,it was decided that this new Contingent should replace the first three New Zealand Contingents. The Sixth Contingents arrived in South Africa in March 1901. The Sixth Contingent [No 16 Company is pictured here] sailed from Auckland in January 1901 and arrived in South Africa in March. It operated in the Transvaal where is assisted the British forces in interning Boer civilians in concentration camps. A New Zealand soldier noted that such work was one of the saddest he performed in South Africa.
Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not provided
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Lyndsay Campbell, Summer Hill NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great, Great, Great, Nephew
