The Australian Boer War Memorial
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Private Archibald Gordon |
Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Archibald A Gordon
Ancestor's date of birth: 1873
Ancestor's date of death: 24/01/1912
Cause of Death: Detail not provided.
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Detail not provided.
Service Number: 247
Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 472
Contingent: Third Queensland
Ship: Duke of Portland, Date of Sailing: 02/03/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal, Oreange Free State, Relief of Mafeking, Elands River and SA 1901 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: April 1900 - April 1901 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal including relief of Mafeking (16-17 May 1900), defeat at Koster River (22 July 1900) and defence of Elands River Post (4-16 August 1900), and in northern Transvaal including battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), and advance on Pietersburg.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: June 1901 on the Morayshire and train from Sydney. No further details provided.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Vivieene H Neil, Black's Beach, Mackay QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Great great granddaughterName of Descendant: Gordon James Neil, Fremantle WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Great GrandsonName of Descendant: Cynthia Ann Cuthbertson, Howard Springs, Darwin NT
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand DaughterName of Descendant: Grace Ann Cuthbertson, Howard Springs, Darwin NT
Relationship to Ancestor: Great great granddaughterName of Descendant: Laureen Elands Dawson, Kanimbla Heights, Cairns QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand Daughter
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