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Private William Tweedie

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: William George Tweedie (Murray Reference Tweedy)

Ancestor's date of birth: 1880

Ancestor's date of death: 1930

Cause of Death: unkown

Service Number: 99

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Sydney

Unit: A Squadron 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles.

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

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

Murray Page: 34

Contingent: First New South Wales

Ship: Aberdeen, Date of Sailing: 03/11/1899

Memorial details: Details not provided.

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Details not provided.

Reasons to go and fight: Details not provided.

Details of service in war: Served from December 1899 in Cape Colony, Free State, and Transvaal. Wounded at Klipkraal 17 February 1900 and Thaba Nchu 30 April 1900. Invalided to Australia arriving 6 August 1900.

Service and life after the Boer War: Worked for the railways. Sired 8 children.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: William Hedley Tweedie, Tumbi Umbi NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

 


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