Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: William Duncan Wright
Ancestor's date of birth: 19/09/1865
Ancestor's date of death: 30/11/1951
Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure
Service Number: 21001
Colony or State of enlistment: Not applicable, Place of Enlistment: Chelmsford, England
Unit: 44th Suffolk Company, 12th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry
Rank attained in Boer War: CSGT, Date Effective: Detail not provided
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer war service
Murray Page: Not applicable did not serve in an Australian Unit
Contingent: Not applicable
Ship: Travelled from the UK
Memorial details: Detail not provided.
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Orange Free State and SA 1901 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Born in Yorkshire UK. Height 182 cm, weight 78 kg.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: The Imperial Yeomanry were not well employed during the Boer War. Recriuted from mounted militiamen in the UK, they lacked the horse and bush fighting skills of their colonial comrades, thus were given mundane tasks where lack of real action and disease did little for their morale. This meant that when called upon to fight, the results were not always creditable.
Service and life after the Boer War: He migrated to Australia with his wife six sons and one daughter in 1910. During WW1 5 sons went to war and only 4 returned the youngest being killed at The Somme.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Margaret Staker, Capalaba QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Daughter
