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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 granddaughter

Name of Descendant: Gordon James Neil, Fremantle WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Great Grandson

Name of Descendant: Cynthia Ann Cuthbertson, Howard Springs, Darwin NT
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand Daughter

Name of Descendant: Grace Ann Cuthbertson, Howard Springs, Darwin NT
Relationship to Ancestor: Great great granddaughter

Name of Descendant: Laureen Elands Dawson, Kanimbla Heights, Cairns QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grand Daughter

 


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