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Lance Corporal David Fuller

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: David Patrick Fuller

Ancestor's date of birth: 21/10/1874

Ancestor's date of death: 06/11/1963

Cause of Death: Old Age

Service Number: 368

Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Beulah

Unit: 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman

Rank attained in Boer War: LCPL, Date Effective: 1901

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

Murray Page: 268

Contingent: Fourth Victorian Contingent

Ship: Victorian, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900

Memorial details: Ouyen Cemetery Victoria

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Rhodesia and SA 1901 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Volunteering spirit

Details of service in war: May 1900 - June 1901 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal, Cape Colony including relief of Philipstown (11 February 1901), capture of Boer guns at Read's Drift (23 February), and capture of Boer patrol near Doornkloof (1 March 1901); may have seen garrison duty in Rhodesia.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 12 July 1901 on the Orient.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Elaine Tynan, North Balwyn VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand-daughter

 


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