Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Walter Samuel Solomon
Ancestor's date of birth: 14/08/1877
Ancestor's date of death: 14/12/1955
Cause of Death: Old age related
Service Number: 24230
Colony or State of enlistment: SA, Place of Enlistment: Adelaide
Unit: possibly SA Mtd Rifles, then Nebitt's Horse
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): COL, Date Effective: 1940s
Murray Page: Not mentioned in Murray
Contingent: Not known
Ship: Not known
Memorial details: Buried at a Chermside cemetery in Brisbane
Decorations: Should have been entitled to SA, WW1, WW2 medals, and the ED (Efficiency Decoration) details not known.
Personal Characteristics: Height 179 cm, weight 86 kg (1942).
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: Nesbitt's Horse (about 300 strong) was formed in the eastern Cape Colony by Colonel R A Nesbitt in December 1899. They took part in the advance from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, then in the second (guerrilla) phase of the war they were in Cape Colony.
Service and life after the Boer War: Walter, a 70 year old Salvation Army Brigadier in 1948, originally an Adelaide SA metallurgist & assayer with School of Mines and Boer War Trooper, converted from Judaism to join Salvation Army and left Adelaide circa 1903-4. He married Alice and lived in Marrickville NSW. In WW1 a Salvation Army Padre stationed in Le Havre France who originated the 'Hop In' kangaroo symbol used again in WW2. He remained a Military Chaplain between the wars serving in WW2 as a Salvation Army Colonel retiring after 25 years service with an Australian Efficiency Decoration.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Lindsay Charles Cox, Melbourne VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: nominee/informant
