The Australian Boer War Memorial
Anzac Parade Canberra
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Corporal Walter Spier |
Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Walter Laishley Spier
Ancestor's date of birth: 1875
Ancestor's date of death: 23/01/1901
Cause of Death: Died of Dysentery, Cape Town South Africa
Service Number: 152
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: ?
Unit: B Squadron, NSW Citizens bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: CPL, Date Effective: Detail not available.
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive the Boer War.
Murray Page: 78 and 204
Contingent: Third New South Wales
Ship: Atlantian or Maplemore Date of Sailing: 28/02/1900
Memorial details: Commemorated in Capetown Maitland Cemetery South Africa. A Memorial in the grounds of All Saints Church Hunters Hill NSW. Ballarat Memorial Victoria and Australian War Memorial Canberra ACT, panel 2 Memorial area.
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps
Personal Characteristics: He was employed as a station overseer at the time of enlistment, a practicising Christian.
Reasons to go and fight: For Queen and Country.
Details of service in war: From April 1900 - April 1901 in Rhodesia, West Transvaal including defence of Elands River Post (4-16 August 1900), and in northern Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive the Boer War.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Margaret Spinks, Hunter Hill NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Sponser/Hon Archivist, Anglican Parish of Hunters Hill
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