Trooper William Rowe

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: William Joseph Elliot Rowe

Ancestor's date of birth: 21/10/1877

Ancestor's date of death: 11/01/1946

Cause of Death: Accident

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Born in Paddington NSW, was living in Petersham when he left for South Africa.

Service Number: 4531 (KH) and 2017 (DAS)

Colony or State of enlistment: Not Australia, Place of Enlistment: South Africa

Unit: Kitchener's horse (KH) and Doyle's Australian Scouts (DAS).

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 18/04/1900

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.

Murray Page: Not included in Murray.

Contingent: Australian unit (DAS) was formed in South Africa.

Ship: Travelled privately to South Africa.

Memorial details: No details provided.

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal; King's South Africa Medal with South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: No details provided.

Reasons to go and fight: No details provided.

Details of service in war: Enlisted 18 April 1900, served until 13 March 1901 with Kitchener's Horse. Including battles at Pretoria and Diamond Hill (11 and 12 June 1900), march from the Delagoa Railway to Heidelberg in October 1900. His service with Kitchener's Scouts in the second phase of the war chiefly in the Western Transvaal. After leaving Kitchener's Horse, he enlisted in Doyle's Australian Scouts; he then served in east then west Transvaal until the war ended. This unit was disbanded in Klerksdorp, June 1902.

Service and life after the Boer War: No details provided. No evidence of post Boer War service.

Editor's Note: NOT able to validate all aspects of Boer War service.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Sandra Jean Smith, Avoca Beach NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great grandaughter

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