Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Edwin Lawrence Alcock
Ancestor's date of birth: 1881
Ancestor's date of death: 1926
Cause of Death: Detail not provided.
Service and Life Before the Boer War: Born at Bega NSW, son of Jonas and Harriet Alcock.
Service Number: 288
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: New South Wales Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 01/01/1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service
Murray Page: 92
Contingent: Fourth New South Wales
Ship: Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900
Memorial details: Bega Boer War Memorial.
Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Rhodesia, Transvaal and SA 1901 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: May 1900 - May 1901 in Rhodesia and west Transvaal including capture of de la Rey's convoy and guns at Wildfontein (24 March 1901). Left Australia as a private, made company quartermaster sergeant 1 January 1901.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 17 July 1901 on the Orient. Died in Tenterfield NSW in 1926.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Kevin Geoffrey Alcock, CORINDA QLD 4075
Relationship to Ancestor: 1st Cousin of my Grandfather
