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Corporal Peter Post

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Peter James Post

Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1872

Ancestor's date of death: 30/08/1928

Cause of Death: Coronary Disease

Service Number: 91 and 2225

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

Unit: 4 Victorian Imperial Bushmen and Australian Imperial Regiment

Rank attained in Boer War: CPL, Date Effective: 01/05/1900

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

Murray Page: 262

Contingent: Fourth Victorian

Ship: Victorian, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900

Memorial details: VMR Memorial Melbourne, Ceremonial Tree Plant at the National Arboretum, Canberra.

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medals with clasps. British War Medal, Victory Medal. Australia Service Medal 1939-1945.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: May 1900 - June 1901 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal under Cape Colony including relief of Philipstown (11 February 1901), capture of Boer guns at Read's Drift (23 February), and capture of Boer patrol near Doornkloof (1 March 1901).

Service and life after the Boer War: Joined 1916, and served in 3 Pioneer Battalion AIF in WW2.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Lyn Hudson-Williamson, Belconnen ACT 2617
Relationship to Ancestor: First Cousin 2X Removed

 


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