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Sergeant Edward Sullivan

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Edward John Sullivan

Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1864

Ancestor's date of death: 26/05/1900

Cause of Death: Enteric Fever at Kroonsstadt

Service Number: 534

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

Unit: 1st NSW Mounted Rifles

Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: Detail not available

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive Boer War, pension records list him as a Warrant Officer.

Murray Page: 62, 202B, 203

Contingent: Second New South Wales

Ship: Southern Cross, Date of Sailing: 17/01/1900

Memorial details: Hospital Hill Cemetery Kroonstad South Africa

Decorations: QSA Driefontein and Cape Colony

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Served with NSW Soudan Contingent 1885, possibly had permanent service.

Details of service in war: From February 1900 in Free State, Transvaal, and western Cape Colony as Transport Sergeant on Regimental staff. Died of enteric fever at Kroonsstadt 26 May 1900. Pension awarded to his widow by NSW Government. Pension records list him as a Warrant Officer.

Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive Boer War.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Judith Young, Abbotsford NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece

 


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