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Private John Semple

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: John Semple

Ancestor's date of birth: 19/02/1879

Ancestor's date of death: 15/05/1901

Cause of Death: Killed in action

Service Number: 403

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

Unit: Western Australian Mounted Infantry

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 01/01/19

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive Boer War

Murray Page: 430 and 440

Contingent: 6th Western Australian

Ship: Ulstermore, Date of Sailing: 09/04/1901

Memorial details: Australian War Memorial Canberra, Panel 3

Decorations: Detail not provided.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: Served from early May 1901 in east Transvaal under Walter Kitchener; Killed in action near Carolina 15/05/1901.

Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive Boer War

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Dale Liepins, Torrens ACT
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Uncle


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