Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Robert Musgrave Evans
Ancestor's date of birth: 1879
Ancestor's date of death: 07/02/1952
Cause of Death: cancer?
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Groom at Victoria barracks
Service Number: 1215
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Melbourne
Unit: 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War Service
Murray Page: 292
Contingent: Fifth Victorian
Ship: Orient, Date of Sailing: 15/02/1901
Memorial details: VMR Memorial Melbourne
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queens South Africa Medal with Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: March 1901 - March 1902 in east Transvaal and Natal frontier, including defeat at Wilmansrust where 18 killed and 42 wounded (12 June 1901), and successful intervention at Onverwacht (4 January 1902); heaviest casualties of any Australian contingent, at Wilmansrust suffered the costliest defeat.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 25 April 1902 on the St Andrew. Worked with horses.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Ethel (Nora) Ashe nee Evans, Mount Waverley VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand daughter
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