Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Thomas James Cleary
Ancestor's date of birth: 10/07/1871
Ancestor's date of death: 06/05/1943
Cause of Death: Age Related, died Tamworth NSW
Service Number: 207
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Tamworth
Unit: B Squadron, 1st NSW Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 01/01/19
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 63
Contingent: Second New South Wales
Ship: Southern Cross Date of Sailing: 17/01/1900
Memorial details: Tamworth War Memorial
Decorations: QSA with clasps: Driefontein, Cape Colony
Personal Characteristics: Worked as a compositor on the Tamworth Newspaper. He was musical, a singer with a fine tenor voice.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: From February 1900 in Free State, Transvaal, and western Cape Colony including charge at Diamond Hill (12 June 1900).
Service and life after the Boer War: Invalided to Australia arriving 30/7/1900. Included in the publication "Tamworth Diamond Jublee Year" 1876-1936 as a local Boer War veteran.
Descendant Details /p>
Name of Descendant: Mary Elizabeth Sancataldo, Eastwood NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter
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