Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Walter Ernest Payne
Ancestor's date of birth: 07/02/1880
Ancestor's date of death: 26/01/1965
Cause of Death: Age related
Service and Life Before the Boer War: A mystery
Service Number: 1116
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): SGT, Date Effective: 1903?
Murray Page: 290
Contingent: Fifth Victorian
Ship: Orient, Argus, or City of Lincoln, Date of Sailing: 15/02/1901
Memorial details: VMR Memorial Melbourne
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: March 1901 - March 1902 in east Transvaal and Natal frontier, including defeat at Wilmansrust where 18 killed and 42 wounded (12 June 1901), and successful intervention at Onverwacht (4 January 1902); heaviest casualties of any Australian contingent, at Wilmansrust suffered the costliest defeat.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 25 April 1902 on the St Andrew or, 26 April 1902 on the Custodian. No further details provided.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Gordon Ian Asbury, Tyers VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: 1st cousin 3 times removed
