Sergeant Robert Baldry

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Robert John Baldry

Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided

Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided

Cause of Death: Post war natural causes.

Service Number: 139

Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Victoria

Unit: 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles

Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: Detail not provided

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided

Murray Page: 234

Contingent: 2nd Victorian

Ship: Euryalus, Date of Sailing: 14 January 1900

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Decorations: Queen's South Africa medal With clasps Orange County, Johannasburg and Cape Colony

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: February 1900 December 1900 in northern Cape Colony, Free State, east Transvaal then west Transvaal; joined with 1st Vic. Mounted Rifles April-September 1900

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Victoria, where he was presented with an award by his unit, on 14/12/1900. Returned from the war to live in Morabin Victoria where he raised his family on a market garden.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Katherine Jane McInnes, Bendigo VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Great (x4) Grandaughter

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