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Trumpeter Allen Worthington

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Allen Valentine Worthington

Ancestor's date of birth: 1882

Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided

Cause of Death: Detail not provided

Service Number: 3507

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

Unit: 3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR (Trumpeter), Date Effective: On enlistment

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

Murray Page: 164

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 02/04/1901

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Had a small part in the in the design of the rising sun emblem. (? - detail provided by Jennifer Mulder)

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: May 1901 - May 1902 in Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 11 August 1902 on the Drayton Grange.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Stephen Gregory Worthington, Condong NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

Name of Descendant: Jennifer Mae Mulder, Bridgeman Downs QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandaughter

 


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