Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Samuel Welsby Cooper
Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1878
Ancestor's date of death: 01/01/1969
Cause of Death: Not known
Service Number: 102
Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Clifton
Unit: Queensland Mounted Infantry
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: Not known
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Postwar service not noted
Murray Page: 454
Contingent: 1st
Ship: Cornwall, Date of Sailing: 01/12/1899
Memorial details: Not Knowm
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal
Personal Characteristics: Not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Not known
Details of service in war: Also spent time in the South African Constabulary while in service. Clasps on medal indicate Jahannesberg, Driefontein, Relief of Kimberly. arrived Brisbane 16.1.01 per 'Orient', 4 weeks bronchitis and pleurisy at Pretoria, discharged 23.1.01 to Clifton.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Bernard William Clarry, Hervey Bay QLD
