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Sergeant Joseph Vardy

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Joseph Francis Vardy

Ancestor's date of birth: 20/05/1874

Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided

Cause of Death: Unknown

Service Number: 221

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

Unit: 4th Queensalnd Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 29/12/1900

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

Murray Page: 484

Contingent: Fourth Queensland.

Ship: Manchester Post, Date of Sailing: 18/05/1900

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Decorations: Queen and King's South Africa medals with clasps

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: Went to South Africa as a private, promoted corporal 01/06/1900, sergeant 29/12/1900. Saw service June 1900 - June 1901 in Free State, Transvaal, and battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt and advance on Pietersburg and into east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 5 August 1901 on the Britannic. No other details provided

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Noreen Murray, Gulgong NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Niece

 


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