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Lieutenant Owen Taylor

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Owen Albert Taylor

Ancestor's date of birth: 1880

Ancestor's date of death: 1964 in New Zealand

Cause of Death: Old Age

Service Number: 811 and 3904

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

Unit: 1st Australian Horse (NSW unit) and 3rd NSW Mounted Rifles

Rank attained in Boer War: LT, Date Effective: 21/03/1901

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): LT, Date Effective: 1914

Murray Page: 45 and 47

Contingent: First and Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Langton Grange, Date of Sailing: 14/11/1899

Ship: Ranee, Date of Sailing: 21/03/1901

Memorial details: Listed on the War Memorial in Bungendore NSW

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with six clasps clasps. KSA + SA 1901, SA 1902.

Personal Characteristics: Brother to Thomas George Taylor.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: From December 1899 with the Australian Horse in northern Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal; with French's cavalry division including relief of Kimberley (February 1900). Wounded in the shoulder at Driefontein on the 10 March 1900. April 1901 - April 1902 with 3 NSWMR in Free State and East Transvaal under Rimington including Boer breakthrough at Langverwacht (24 February 1902).

Service and life after the Boer War: In WW1 he served as an Officer #24293 in the New Zealand Army 1914 to 1918, he was wounded at Polygon Wood.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Shirley Denyer, Penhurst NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: He was my husband's uncle

 


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