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Trooper Robert Levett

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Robert Levett

Ancestor's date of birth: 14/06/1856

Ancestor's date of death: 16/07/1919

Cause of Death: 1. Influenza 2. Pneumonia

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Rabbit Inspector

Service Number: 182

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

Unit: NSW Citizens' Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 28/02/1900

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

Murray Page: 79

Contingent: Third New South Wales

Ship: Atlantian, Date of Sailing: 28/02/1900

Memorial details: Buried in Hay NSW

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Rhodesia, Transvaal, South Africa 1901.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Unknown

Details of service in war: April 1900 - April 1901 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.

Service and life after the Boer War: Worked as a Rabbit Inspector in Hay, NSW, Until his death in 1919. Survived by a wife and 4 children

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: John Charles Levett, Dee Why NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: great grandson

 


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