The Australian Boer War Memorial
Anzac Parade Canberra
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Trooper Thomas Mitchell |
Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Thomas Moore Mitchell
Ancestor's date of birth: 29/10/1872
Ancestor's date of death: 31/03/1947
Cause of Death: Age related heart failure
Service and Life Before the Boer War: He was a farmer from Pitt Town in the Hawkesbury district of NSW on enlistment
Service Number: 752
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney
Unit: 2 Sect, D Coy, New South Wales Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 01/04/1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War military service
Murray Page: 100
Contingent: Fourth New South Wales
Ship: SS Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900
Memorial details: Boer War Memorial Windsor NSW, Presbyterian Cemetery Windsor.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Rhodesia and South Africa 1901 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: His squadron became the personal bodyguard of Lord Methuen. It spent most of the time away from the main body of NSWIB.
Service and life after the Boer War: After the war he spent most of his life as a farmer and orchardist at Cattai in the Hawkesbury district of NSW.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Peter Moore Brown, Cattai NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: GrandsonName of Descendant: Lola Clark, Cattai NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Daughter
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