Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: William Rust
Ancestor's date of birth: 1875
Ancestor's date of death: 08/05/1902
Cause of Death: Died of disease in South Africa in the last month of the war
Service Number: 23 and 258
Colony or State of enlistment: SA, Place of Enlistment: Adelaide
Unit: 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles and 5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 09/02/1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive the Boer War
Murray Page: 368, 391
Contingent: First and Fifth South Australian
Ship: Medic, Date of Sailing: 02/11/1899
Ship: Ormazon, Date of Sailing: 09/02/1901
Memorial details: Kroonstad war cemetery, South Africa, Australian National War Memorial Canberra, Adelaide Boer War Memorial.
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal clasps, King's South Africa Medal with SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: An engineer aged 24 born in Glanville SA, next of kin Mrs S Rust Adelaide
Reasons to go and fight: Detail Not provided
Details of service in war: November 1899 - October 1900 in northern Cape Colony, Free State and in east Transvaal with the 1 SAMR. March 1901 - March 1902 in Free State including defence of Graspan where five dead (6 June 1901) and charge at Grootvlei (2 August 1901) with 5 SAIB. Came down with enteric fever (Typloid) soon after 5SAIB were withdrawn from action, is buried at Kroonstad.
Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive the Boer War
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: John Rust, Greenwich NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand nephew
