The Australian Boer War Memorial
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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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