Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Harrie (A) Brougham Davies
Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided
Ancestor's date of death: 15/08/1940
Cause of Death: Senile Degeneration of the heart
Service Number: Officer - no number
Colony or State of enlistment: WA, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: 5 Western Australian Mounted Infantry
Rank attained in Boer War: LT, Date Effective: Detail not available
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided
Murray Page: 421
Contingent: Fifth Western Australian
Ship: Devon, Date of Sailing: 06/03/1901
Memorial details: Chruch of England Cemetery Wollongong NSW
Decorations: Queens Medal 3 clasps
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: April 1901 - April 1902 in east Transvaal under Walter Kitchener including defeat at Brakpan where three dead (16 May 1901); amalgamated with 6th WA Mounted Infantry May 1901 - April 1902 under Major J. R. Royston.
Service and life after the Boer War: After the war his occupation was an Orchardist. He was born in Southhampton England, he was 54 years in Australia.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Peter Kerr-Laslett, Bargara QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew
