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Trooper Thomas Doyle

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Thomas Patrick Doyle

Ancestor's date of birth: 17/02/1885

Ancestor's date of death: 18/03/1951

Cause of Death: Carcinoma of rectum

Service Number: 3315

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided

Unit: Doyle's Australian Scouts

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

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War Service.

Murray Page: Not mentioned in Murray

Contingent: Not known

Ship: Not known

Memorial details: Details not provided

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal and SA 1902 clasps (David Deasey 2011).

Personal Characteristics: An active Unionist and elected MLC (NSW) in 1925

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: Doyle's Scouts were formed late 1901 or early 1902 from Queenslanders from Australian Commonwealth Regt, recruits and contingent members choosing to remain in South Africa when their contingents departed. Thomas was presumably detached from a contingent arriving in South Africa. Doyle's Scouts are only reported as being active in the Transvaal. Commanding officer: Captain R. D. Doyle (NSW)

Service and life after the Boer War: While a member of the Legislative Council he was the nominal defendant in the privy Council case NSW ATTORNEY GENERAL -v- DOYLE (1933)

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Ken Doyle, DANGAR NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: grandson

 


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