Trooper Alfred Burgin

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Alfred Arthur Burgin

Ancestor's date of birth: 09/07/1877

Ancestor's date of death: 01/01/1957

Cause of Death: Natural causes

Service Number: 895

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Parramatta

Unit: NSW Lancers

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: Detail not available

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): PTE, Date Effective: Detail not provided

Murray Page: 11

Contingent: First New South Wales

Ship: Nineveh, Date of Sailing: 10/11/1899 (from the UK)

Memorial details: Boer War Memorial and NSW Lancers' Museum, Parramatta NSW

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Already a serving soldier

Details of service in war: November 1899 - December 1900 in northern Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal; with French's cavalry division from relief of Kimberley (February 1900) to sweep to Heidelberg (October 1900).

Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not provided

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Frederick Maxwell Burgin, Scullin ACT
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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