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Trooper Joseph Judd

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Joseph Francis Henry Judd

Ancestor's date of birth: 13/04/1880

Ancestor's date of death: 01/01/1953

Cause of Death: Heart Attack

Service Number: 33555

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney

Unit: 2nd Scottish Horse

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

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided

Murray Page: Not applicable

Contingent: Not applicable

Ship: Details not available

Memorial details: Rookwood Cemetery Family Plot

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Clasps: Transvaal, Orange Free State, Cape Colony.

Personal Characteristics: Honourable Gentleman

Reasons to go and fight: Volunteer, Commonwealth Campaign.

Details of service in war: The Scottish Horse raised for the South African War in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg and expanded to two regiments. The 1st and 2nd Scottish Horse formed from Australian volunteers, drafts from Scotland and South Africa. In 1902 both regiments were disbanded at Edinburgh Castle, after repatriating Australians and discharging South Africans.

Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not provided

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: John Bowe, Randwick NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

 


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