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Shoeing-Smith John Murphy |
Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: JOHN JAMES MURPHY
Ancestor's date of birth: 1875
Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided
Cause of Death: Detail not provided
Service Number: 336
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: TUMBARUMBA
Unit: D SQUADRON 1ST NSW MOUNTED RIFLES
Rank attained in Boer War: Shoeing-Smith, Date Effective: Detail not available
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): TPR, Date Effective: Detail not provided
Murray Page: 68
Contingent: Second New South Wales
Ship: Southern Cross, Date of Sailing: 17/01/1900
Memorial details: BOER WAR MEMORIAL TUMBARUMBA NSW
Decorations: QSA MEDAL 4 CLASPS
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: February 1900 - March 1901 in Free State, Transvaal, and western Cape Colony including charge at Diamond Hill (12 June 1900); Sustained a leg injury after horse was shot and fell on him and was discharged in March 1901 with gunshot wounds and other injuries.
Service and life after the Boer War: In 1915 at age 40, still single and a carpenter, enlisted in 1st Light Horse and served in Egypt and the Middle East, mainly as a regimental policeman (webmaster unable to validate from available records).
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: JUNE MARILYN ROBERTSON, HORNSBY HEIGHTS NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand-daughter of his brotherName of Descendant: Alan James Murphy, Pritchard NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand-son of his brother
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