Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Walter Asquith
Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1877
Ancestor's date of death: Details not provided.
Cause of Death: Old Age
Service Number: 126
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Hillgrove
Unit: B Squadron 1st NSW Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post war service.
Murray Page: 62
Contingent: Second New South Wales
Ship: Southern Cross, Date of Sailing: 17/01/1900
Memorial details: Details not provided
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Details not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Details not provided
Details of service in war: February 1900 - March 1901 in Free State, Transvaal, and western Cape Colony including charge at Diamond Hill (12 June 1900)
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 29 April 1901. Served in the NSW Police, reaching the rank of inspector.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Walter Asquith, Baulkham Hills NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: GrandsonName of Descendant: Judith Alderman, Hillsdale NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand daughterName of Descendant: Mark R P Alderman, Hillsdale NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Great Grandson
