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Trooper Richard Lane

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Richard Clifton Lane

Ancestor's date of birth: 16/03/1880

Ancestor's date of death: 1966

Cause of Death: Old Age

Service Number: 3538

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Orange

Unit: 3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: No further details provided.

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

Murray Page: 157

Contingent: Fifth Neww South Wales

Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 02/04/1901 (most likely)

Memorial details: No detail provided

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South africa medal with Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: April 1901 - April 1902 in west then east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: mid 1902 on Ansonia or 11 August 1902 on Drayton Grange. No further details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Robert Clifton Lane, Killarney Heights NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandfather

 


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