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Trooper Herbert Keys

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Herbert Alonzo Keys

Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided

Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided

Cause of Death: Detail not provided

Service Number: 2081

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided

Unit: 3rd NSW Mounted Rifles

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment

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

Murray Page: 126

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 15/03/1901

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: April 1901 - April 1902 in Free State and East Transvaal including Boer breakthrough at Langverwacht (24 February 1901)

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 3 June 1902. No further details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Karl Joseph Parkes, Narrabeen NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

 


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