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Private Peter McDonnell

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Peter Michael McDonnell

Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1875

Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided

Cause of Death: Not Stated

Service Number: 51

Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Brisbane

Unit: 6th Queensland Imperial Bushman

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

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

Murray Page: 511

Contingent: Sixth Queensland.

Ship: Victoria, Date of Sailing: 04/04/1901

Memorial details: Interred in Scotland

Decorations: King's South Africa Medal with 1901 and 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: Like most other overseas Contingents at this stage of the war,the 6th were employed for the most part in constantly trekking over given districts,driving in and harrassing the enemy,bringing to the various bases,prisioners,cattle,horses,sheep and vehicles etc., and laying west the country, a service of much excitement and vicissitude. The 6th QIB departed Durban South Africa on the 17 May 1902 in the transport Devon. They arrived in Brisbane from Sydney by Rail on the 17 June 1902. This unit was disbanded on the 23 June 1902

Service and life after the Boer War: No details supplied.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Geoff McDowell, Bracken Ridge QLD

Relationship to Ancestor: Cousin

 


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