Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Thomas Hotspur Angel
Ancestor's date of birth: 05/09/1869
Ancestor's date of death: 23/04/1901
Cause of Death: Died of wounds.
Service Number: 105
Colony or State of enlistment: WA Place of Enlistment: Karrakatta
Unit: Western Australian Citizen's Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive Boer War
Murray Page: 410, 440
Contingent: Third Western Australian
Ship: Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 14/03/1900
Memorial details: Presently Buried in Garden of Remembrance at Petersburg in Northern Transvaal.
Decorations: Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM), Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps
Personal Characteristics: Not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Not provided
Details of service in war: April 1900 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal including skirmish at Koster River (22 July 1900), and in northern Transvaal including battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt, including charge at Wolwekuil (14 February 1901), and advance on Petersburg. Was wounded in action at De Burgs Pass on 7 April 1901 for which he was Mentioned in Despatches for Conspicuous Bravery on that day and later in the London Gazette on 23 April 1901, and by way of War Office Telegram No 7179 dated 23 April 1901, ironically on the day he died (23 April 1901 of enteric fever (typhoid) at Warmbaths), Trooper Angel was awarded the DCM. CLICK HERE for more detail on Thomas Angel.
Service and life after the Boer War: Died during Boer War.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Kerry Skipworth, QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Not providedName of Descendant:(Robert) HOWARD ANGEL, PINJARRA WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew
