The Australian Boer War Memorial
Anzac Parade Canberra
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Corporal Edgar Luxmoore |
Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Edgar Alexander Luxmoore
Ancestor's date of birth: 09/01/1873
Ancestor's date of death: Not Stated
Cause of Death: Not stated
Service Number: 971
Colony or State of enlistment: SA, Place of Enlistment: ADELAIDE
Unit: 2 Bn Australian Commonwealth Horse
Rank attained in Boer War: CPL, Date Effective: Prior to embarkation
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of Post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 380
Contingent: First Australian
Ship: Manchester Merchant, Date of Sailing: 20/02/1902
Ship: Date of Sailing: 01/01/19
Other Boer War Service: Nil.
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal and SA 1902 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: He apparently did see me before he died but I was still a very young child. My Mother said that he had no real training and was bought up in a relatively wealthy family as a gentleman. He was a good horseman.
Reasons to go and fight: Not known
Details of service in war: The unit disembarked at Durban on 13 March 1092 and proceeded by train to Newcastle. There were operations around Newcastle and Botha's Post until 9 April 1902 and then marched to Volksrust and entrained to Klerksdorp. There were operations around Klerksdorp and to Devondale Siding as part of De Lisle's Australian Brigade (which was portion of LTGEN Sir Ian Hamilton's mobile force) in the last great drive of the war. Then marched back to Klerksdorp and were in general orders before marching to Elandofontein where they handed over their horses/saddlery and moved by train to Newcastle and then Durban.
Service and life after the Boer War: I am not certain whether he returned with his unit although info I have says that his unit returned to South Australia on the transport ship "Norfolk" which sailed from Durban 5 July 1902 and disembarked at Largs Bay on 31 July 1902 and his unit disbanded 14 August 1902. Either he returned or stayed in South Africa because he met and married my Grandmother in Pietersburg, Transvaal and 3 of their children were born there. He did return to South Australia around 1910 and took up a soldier settlement property of 2,800 hectares in the area that became known as the "90 mile desert" out from Tailem Bend, South Australia. This proved to be a disaster and they walked off with nothing. These were the days before the idea of putting trace elements into the soil.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Howard Lawrence Parslow, KENSINGTON PARK SA
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson
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