Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: William Edley aka Ernest Beacham
Ancestor's date of birth: 18/08/1881
Ancestor's date of death: 29/03/1926
Cause of Death: Mitrol Regurgitation
Service Number: 202 and 130
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Tenterfield
Unit: NSW Imperial Bushman and 5th Australian Commonwealth Horse B Squadron
Rank attained in Boer War: LCPL, Date Effective: 01/01/19
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No record of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 92 and 188
Contingent: 4th NSW Contingent and 3rd Australian Contingent
Ship: Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900
Ship: Columbia, Date of Sailing: 22/05/1902
Other Boer War Service: B Squadron Australian Commonwealth Horse
Memorial details: War Memorial Bathurst NSW
Decorations: QSA +5 clasps Transvaal, Orange Free State, Rhodesia, Cape Colony, SA 1901.
Personal Characteristics: Of Chinese descent, height: 179 cm.
Reasons to go and fight: Adventure
Details of service in war: With NSWIB May 1900 - May 1901 in Rhodesia and west Transvaal including capture of de la Rey's convoy and guns at Wildfontein (24 March 1901). 5 Bn ACH arrived after the war ended.
Service and life after the Boer War: A Station Hand in civilian life.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Robert Crick, Cronulla NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson
