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Corporal James Lloyd

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: James Lloyd

Ancestor's date of birth: 01/04/1880

Ancestor's date of death: 20/05/1909

Cause of Death: Intestinal Obstruction

Service Number: 170 (QMI) - 20 (ACH)

Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Gympie

Unit: 1 Queensland Mounted Infantry - 7 Battalion Commonwealth Horse

Rank attained in Boer War: CPL, Date Effective: 1902

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No further military service.

Murray Page: 453 (QMI) 531 ACH)

Contingent: First Queensland and Third Australian

Ship: Cornwall, Date of Sailing: 01/11/1899

Ship: Custodian, Date of Sailing: 19/05/1902

Memorial details: Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia

Decorations: Queen and King's South Africa Medals

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: December 1899 in northwest Cape Colony including victory over rebel band at Sunnyside (1 January 1900), Free State, and east Transvaal. Wounded and invalided to Australia ,arriving on the 01/09/1900. When he terurned to South Africa with the Australian Commonwealth Horse, the unit saw no active service.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia with the 7th Battalion Commonwealth Horse on the 18th July 1902. No further details available until his premature death in 1909

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Ken Heiniger, Samford QLD 4520
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand Nephew

 


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