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Tasmanian Soldiers



Fourth (Second Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen) Contingent
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Departed: March 27, 1901
Returned: June 25, 1902



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ABERY         Henry Percy                Private                 No. 1 Company
ABERY         Robert George              Private                 No. 1 Company
ADAMS         Gordon Cyril               Private                 No. 1 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal 27/12/1901
ANDERSON      George Alexander           Private                 No. 1 Company
BAKER         Arthur                     Private                 No. 1 Company
BALLANTYNE    Robert                     Bugler                  No. 2 Company
BARKER        Walter George              Private                 No. 1 Company
BARNARD       Walter                     Private                 No. 2 Company
BARRON        Edward                     Private                 No. 2 Company; Promoted to Corporal, Field Hospital 22/6/1901
BELL          Rd. Patrick                Private                 No. 2 Company
BERESFORD     Cyril Walter               Private                 No. 2 Company; (also given as BERRESFORD); Promoted to Quartermaster-Sergeant 7/10/1901

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BEVAN         Archibald Joseph           Private                 No. 2 Company
BILLING       Phillip David              Shoeing-Smith           No. 1 Company
BINGLEY       Arthur                     Shoeing-Smith           No. 2 Company
BIRCHALL      Stephen                    Corporal                No. 2 Company
BISDEE        John Hutton                Lieutenant              No. 1 Company; Previously served with the 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen in the 3rd contingent; V.C.; Queen's Medal with 3 clasps; King's Medal with 2 clasps    
BLACKBURN     Harry Stanley              Private                 No. 1 Company
BLACKLOW      Richard Albert             Corporal                No. 1 Company; Promoted to Sergeant 3/6/1901
BLACKWELL     Walter                     Shoeing-Smith           No. 2 Company
BLYTH         Charles Oscar              Lieutenant              No. 1 Company; Previously served in the 1st contingent
BLYTH         George Herbert             Private                 No. 1 Company
BRANAGAN      William                    Sergeant                No. 1 Company; Promoted to Colour-Sergeant 28/4/1901

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BRENT         Rupert Delamere            2nd Lieutenant          No. 2 Company; Queen's Medal with 2 clasps
BREWARD       George                     Private                 No. 2 Company
BREWER        George Martin Frederick    Private                 No. 1 Company
BREWSTER      Frederick Vincent          Sergeant                No. 1 Company
BROOKS        George Robert              Private                 No. 1 Company
BROWN         Alfred                     Private                 No. 1 Company
BROWNELL        ....    ....    ....     Private                 No. 1 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal 28/4/1901; Received an Imperial Commission
BRUCE         William                    Sergeant-Major          Battalion Staff
BURTON        Charles William            Private                 No. 1 Company
BYRNE         William Joseph Samuel      Private                 No. 1 Company
CARLIN        William Cameron            Private                 No. 1 Company

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CASSIDY       William Robert             Private                 No. 1 Company
CAWTHORN      Charles                    Private                 No. 2 Company; Mentioned in Commander-in-Chief's despatches 23/6/1902
CHALMERS      Frederic Royden            2nd Lieutenant          No. 2 Company; Previosly served in 1st Contingent; Promoted to 1st Lieutenant 1/8/1901
CHEPMELL      Henry Douglas              Corporal                No. 2 Company; Promoted to Sergeant 22/6/1901
CHILCOT       Charles Ernest             Lance-Corporal          No. 2 Company; Promoted to Corporal 21/9/1901
CLEARY        Walter James               Private                 No. 2 Company
COATES        Ernest Thomas              Private                 No. 1 Company
COLEMAN       Herbert Norman             Shoeing-Smith           No. 1 Company
COLEMAN       Newell Hay                 Private                 No. 1 Company
COOLEY        Robert Golding             Private                 No. 1 Company
COOMBE        Archibald                  Transport Sergeant      Battalion Staff; Mentioned in Commander-in-Chief's despatches 8/12/1901 & 23/6/1902

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COOMBE        Edward                     Saddler                 No. 2 Company
CORRIGAN      Leslie James               Private                 No. 2 Company
COWELL        Francis Gilbert            Private                 No. 2 Company; Died of disease 25/11/1901
COX           Herbert                    Private                 No. 1 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal 3/6/1901
COX           Leslie Thomas              Private                 No. 1 Company
CURTAIN       Edward Allan Michael       Private                 No. 2 Company
DIXON         Robert                     Sergeant                No. 1 Company; Acting Squadron Sergeant-Major 17/2/1902
DOBSON        William Michael Henry      Private                 No. 1 Company
DONNELLY      Daniel                     Private                 No. 2 Company
DOWD          Thomas                     Private                 No. 2 Company
DREW          John                       Sergeant                No. 1 Company; Acting Colour-Sergeant; Acting Regimental Sergeant-Major 17/2/1902

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EDWARDS       John William               Private                 No. 1 Company
EDWARDS       William Alfred             Lance-Corporal          No. 2 Company; Promoted to Corporal 10/10/1901
EMERY         Percy Alexander            Private                 No. 2 Company
EVANS         Alexander Arthur           Lance-Corporal          No. 2 Company; Promoted to Corporal 6/2/1902
FACY          Wilfred James              Corporal                No. 1 Company; Promoted to Sergeant 27/3/1901
FEGAN         William Patrick            Private                 No. 1 Company
FERGUSON      Tom Tierney                Private                 No. 1 Company
FERGUSSON     Albert Ernest              Private                 No. 1 Company
FITZALLEN     Charles Edward             Private                 No. 1 Company
FORD          Frederick Wilbraham        Private                 No. 1 Company
FOREMAN       Frederick William          Private                 No. 1 Company

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FRENCH        Claude                     Private                 No. 1 Company
FROOT         Alfred Leslie              Private                 No. 2 Company
FROST         Norman Lewis               Private                 No. 1 Company
GEE           Harold William             Private                 No. 1 Company
GLOVER        George                     Saddler                 No. 1 Company
GOUCHER       Frederick Thomas Henry     Bugler                  No. 1 Company
GRANT         Archibald James            Private                 No. 2 Company
GREEN         Hedley Laurence            Shoeing-Smith           No. 1 Company
GREER         Harold William             Private                 No. 1 Company
GROOM         Charles Gresham D'Oyley    Private                 No. 1 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal 28/4/1901; Corporal 27/12/1901
GUTHRIE       Robert                     Private                 No. 1 Company

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HAINES        Edward Ernest              Private                 No. 2 Company
HALLAM        Harry                      Lieutenant              No. 2 Company; Previosly served in 1st Contingent; Promoted to Transport Officer 6/6/1901
HARRIS        George Albert              Private                 No. 1 Company
HARRISON      George Francis             Private                 No. 1 Company
HARRISON      Ronald Wilberforce         Private                 No. 1 Company; Acting-Sergeant; Promoted to Orderly-Room Sergeant 26/4/1901
HART          Richard John               Private                 No. 2 Company
HENDERSON     Carlisle                   Captain                 No. 1 Company; Queen's Medal with 2 clasps
HEWITT        Arthur Reginald            Private                 No. 1 Company
HEWITT        Elmslie Fayrer             Private                 No. 1 Company
HEWITT        Walter                     Private                 No. 2 Company
HIGGS         Edmund                     Private                 No. 2 Company

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HILDYARD      George Gerald              Private                 No. 2 Company
HILL          George William             Private                 No. 1 Company
HILL          John                       Private                 No. 2 Company
HOLMWOOD      Cecil Archibald            Lance-Corporal          No. 1 Company; Promoted to Corporal 1/3/1902
HOWARD        Thomas Charles Herbert     Private                 No. 1 Company
HUGHES        James Leigh                Private                 No. 2 Company
HULL          Robert Edward Morrisby     Private                 No. 1 Company; Acting Quartermaster-Sergeant 28/6/1901
HUNT          Algernon Ashbury           Private                 No. 2 Company
HUNT          Arthur Erskine             Corporal                No. 2 Company; Promoted to Sergeant 6/2/1902
HUNTER        Albert Ernest              Private                 No. 2 Company
HUTTLEY       Leonard Percy              Private                 No. 2 Company; Died of disease 14/2/1901

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IBBOT         Stephen Mears              Private                 No. 2 Company
IBBOTSON      Frederick Nelson           Private                 No. 2 Company; Promoted to Shoeing-Smith 1/7/1901
ILES          Richard                    Private                 No. 2 Company
JARDINE       Thomas Foster              Private                 No. 1 Company
JEFFREY       Tasman                     Private                 No. 1 Company
JOHNSON       Hedley Mitchell            Private                 No. 2 Company
JOHNSON       James William              Private                 No. 2 Company
JOHNSTON      Roy                        Corporal                No. 1 Company
JOHNSTONE     J.H.                       Private                 No. 1 Company
JONES         Archibald                  Private                 No. 2 Company
JONES         Harold Percival            Private                 No. 2 Company

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JOYCE         John Martial               Private                 No. 1 Company
JOYCE         Joseph Clarence            Private                 No. 2 Company
JOYCE         Joshua James               Private                 No. 2 Company
KEARNS        Thomas                     Private                 No. 2 Company
KING          Jacob Archibald            Bugler                  No. 2 Company
KIRK          Joseph Edward              Private                 No. 1 Company
LAUGHTON      Louis Horace               Trooper                 Promoted to Lieutenant from the 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushman in the 3rd Contingent; (only mentioned in "promotions list" for the 4th Contingent)    
LAUGHTON      Sydney Thomas              Lance-Corporal          No. 1 Company
LAWLER        Harry                      Private                 No. 2 Company
LESLIE        Thomas Henry               Private                 No. 2 Company
LITTLE        Alfred Richard             Private                 No. 1 Company

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LOANE         Norman Edward              Private                 No. 2 Company
LUTRELL       Albert Walter Frederick    Private                 No. 1 Company; (also given as LUTTRELL)
LYALL         Alexander George           Private                 No. 2 Company
LYALL         Thomas                     Private                 No. 1 Company
LYNE          Douglas M.                 Corporal                No. 1 Company; Promoted to Quartermaster-Sergeant; Mentioned in Commander-in-Chief's despatches 8/12/1901; Died of disease 4/5/1902
LYNE          William Henry              Private                 No. 1 Company
MacDONALD     Malcolm                    Private                 No. 1 Company
MADDOX        Cyril Lakeland             Private                 No. 1 Company
MANNING       William James              Sergeant                No. 2 Company
MANSER        John Albert                Private                 No. 1 Company
MARONEY       Joseph Harland             Private                 No. 1 Company

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MARSDEN       Thomas Henry               Private                 No. 1 Company
MARSHALL      George                     Private                 No. 2 Company
MASON         William                    Private                 No. 2 Company
MASSEY        James                      Private                 No. 2 Company
MATHEUS       Stewart                    Private                 No. 2 Company
MATTEI        Charles                    Lieutenant              Battalion Staff; Medical Staff; Queen's Medal with clasp
MAXFIELD      James                      Private                 No. 2 Company
McCORMICK     John                       Lieutenant-Adjutant     Battalion Staff; Previously served in the 1st contingent; Promoted to Adjutant 27/3/1901; Mentioned in despatches in 'London Gazette' 31/8/1902; D.S.O.; Queen's Medal with 5 clasps    
McGRATH       Martin                     Private                 No. 2 Company
McINTYRE      Gilbert Langdon            Corporal                No. 1 Company; Promoted to Provisional Lieutenant 19/2/1902
McINTYRE      Walter Archibald           Private                 No. 1 Company

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McKERCHER     George                     Private                 No. 2 Company
McLEAN        Murdie                     Farrier-Sergeant        No. 2 Company
MEREDITH      Charles Christopher        Private                 No. 2 Company
MONSON        Albert Joseph              Private                 No. 1 Company
MOORE         James Laurence Armitstead  Private                 No. 2 Company; Acting Orderly-Room Sergeant 22/5/1901
MORGAN        Evan                       Corporal                No. 2 Company
MORLEY        George                     Private                 No. 2 Company
MORRISBY      Raymond Clark              Private                 No. 1 Company
MOYLE         William Thomas             Private                 No. 2 Company
MUNDY         Thomas                     Private                 No. 1 Company
MUNRO         James Lindsay              Private                 No. 2 Company

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MURPHY        James                      Lance-Corporal          No. 2 Company; Promoted to Corporal 1/8/1901; Sergeant 16/10/1901; Mentioned in Commander-in-Chief's despatches 23/6/1902
MURRAY        Aubrey                     Private                 No. 2 Company
MURRAY        David James                Private                 No. 1 Company
MURRELL       Edward R.                  Private                 No. 1 Company
NATION        Herbert                    Private                 No. 1 Company
NEAL          Allan Henry                Private                 No. 1 Company
NICHOLSON     Alfred                     Private                 No. 2 Company
NICHOLSON     Claude Anthony             Private                 No. 1 Company
NOLAN         Aron                       Private                 No. 2 Company
NORMAN        Sydney Herbert Louis       Private                 No. 2 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal 28/4/1901; Corporal 22/6/1901
NORTH         Joseph                     Private                 No. 2 Company

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NORTH         William Henry              Private                 No. 2 Company; Invalided and awarded a pension
OLDHAM        Frank Hedley C.            Private                 No. 1 Company
OLDING        John Thomas                Private                 No. 2 Company
ORR           John                       Lance-Corporal          No. 1 Company; Promoted to Corporal 28/4/1901; Killed in action 18/11/1901
O'SHEA        James                      Private                 No. 2 Company
PAGE          Charles Hale               Private                 No. 2 Company
PAGE          Dudley Harold              Private                 No. 2 Company
PAGE          Francis Neville            Private                 No. 2 Company
PAGE          Julian Lambert Russell     Corporal                No. 2 Company
PARKER        Arthur James               Private                 No. 1 Company
PATRICK       Thomas Henry               Private                 No. 1 Company

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PATTERSON     John Hugh                  Private                 No. 1 Company
PAUL          Richard Arthur             Private                 No. 1 Company
PEACOCK       Frederick                  Private                 No. 1 Company
PEDDER        Joseph                     Private                 No. 2 Company
PEGG          Arthur Charles             Private                 No. 1 Company
PHEGAN        J.                         Private                 No. 1 Company; Died of disease 3/12/1901
RAMSKELL      Ernest Florestan           Private                 No. 1 Company
READING       Patrick                    Private                 No. 2 Company
REARDON       James Tasman               Private                 No. 2 Company
REID          Ernest Charles             Private                 No. 2 Company
REID          John                       Private                 No. 2 Company

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RICHARDSON    George Fairbrass           Lieutenant              No. 1 Company; Previously served in the 1st contingent; Mentioned in despatches in 'London Gazette' 31/8/1902; Queen's Medal with 5 clasps; King's Medal with 2 clasps
RICHARDSON    Montague Claude            Private                 No. 2 Company
RILEY         John Temple                Private                 No. 1 Company
ROBERTSON     Thomas                     Private                 No. 1 Company
ROBINSON      Edward William             Quartermaster-Sergeant  Battalion Staff
ROSS          Harold                     Private                 No. 1 Company
SALTER        William Hobart             Private                 No. 2 Company
SANDISON      William                    Corporal                No. 1 Company; Promoted to Sergeant 28/4/1901
SARGEANT      Dudley Herbert             Private                 No. 2 Company
SAUNDERSON    George                     Private                 No. 1 Company
SCADON        Robert William             Private                 No. 2 Company
SCOLL         William Charles Stewart    Private                 No. 2 Company

[Top]           SOLDIER'S NAME             RANK                    COMMENTS

SCOTT         Alfred Henry               Private                 No. 2 Company
SCRITCHLEY    William Edmund             Private                 No. 2 Company
SHAW          George                     Sergeant                Promoted to Lieutenant from the 1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushman in the 3rd Contingent; (only mentioned in "promotions list" for the 4th Contingent)
SHEARING      George                     Private                 No. 1 Company
SHEGOG        Albert Edward              Private                 No. 1 Company
SHERRIN       Oscar Herbert              Corporal                No. 2 Company
SIMMONDS      Frank Ernest               Private                 No. 1 Company
SMITH         Charles James              Private                 No. 1 Company
SMITH         John Robert                Private                 No. 2 Company
SMITH         William Arthur             Private                 No. 2 Company
SOMMERVILL    William                    Private                 No. 2 Company
SPENCER       Thomas Alfred              Captain                 No. 2 Company; Queen's Medal with clasps

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STEWART       Kenneth Henry              Private                 No. 2 Company
STREET        James Robert               Private                 No. 1 Company
STREET        Robert Edward              Private                 No. 1 Company
SUCHE         Alfred James Parnell       Colour-Sergeant         No. 2 Company; Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant 27/4/1901; Queen's Medal with 2 clasps
SUITOR        Alban                      Private                 No. 2 Company
SUTTON        Roland Thomas              Private                 No. 2 Company
SWAN          Morton Henry               Lieutenant              No. 2 Company; Previously served in 1st Contingent; Promoted to Paymaster 1/8/1901
TAYLER        Walter Alfred Charles      Private                 No. 2 Company
TAYLOR          ....    ....    ....     Private                 No. 1 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal 28/4/1901
TEMPLETON     Robert                     Private                 No. 1 Company
THOMAS        Vernon Samuel              Shoeing-Smith           No. 1 Company
THOMPSON      Frank William              Bugler                  No. 1 Company

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THOMPSON      Percy Robert               Private                 No. 2 Company
THOMPSON      Richard Horace             Private                 No. 1 Company
THOMPSON      William                    Private                 No. 2 Company
TILLEY        Edward Tom                 Private                 No. 1 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal; Corporal 3/6/1901
TUCKER        Alfred Sorell              Private                 No. 1 Company
TUCKER        William George             Private                 No. 1 Company
TURNER        Albert Edward              Private                 No. 2 Company
VINCENT       Alfred Henry               Private                 No. 1 Company
WADDLE        Percy Charles Emanuel      Private                 No. 2 Company
WADE          Percy                      Private                 No. 1 Company
WALLER        William Albert             Private                 No. 2 Company
WARBURTON     John                       Private                 No. 1 Company; (also given as WARBURTON, J.E.); Died from wounds 9/5/1901

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WATCHORN      Edwin Thomas               Lieutenant-Colonel      Battalion Staff; Mentioned in despatches in 'London Gazette' 17/6/1902; C.B.; Queen's Medal with clasps
WATSON        Frederick                  Private                 No. 1 Company
WATSON        Robert                     Private                 No. 2 Company
WEBB          Frederick Henry            Private                 No. 2 Company
WEEDING       John James                 Private                 No. 2 Company
WHILEY        Harry                      Private                 No. 1 Company
WHITE         Edward Henry               Private                 No. 2 Company
WHITE         George                     Private                 No. 2 Company
WHITE         William                    Private                 No. 2 Company
WHITING       Stephen Daly               Private                 No. 1 Company
WHITTLE       John Woods                 Private                 No. 2 Company
WILKINS       John William               Private                 No. 2 Company

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WILKINSON     Harry George               Private                 No. 2 Company
WILLIAMS      Francis Hyld               Private                 No. 1 Company
WILLIAMS      Percy Augustus             Private                 No. 1 Company
WILLOUGHBY      ....    ....    ....     Private                 No. 1 Company; Promoted to Lance-Corporal 28/4/1901; Acting Quartermaster-Sergeant 22/5/1901
WILSON        John William               Private                 No. 2 Company
WILSON        Reginald Collins           Private                 No. 1 Company
WILSON        Robert Benjamin            Lance-Corporal          No. 1 Company
WINFIELD      Charles William            Sergeant-Farrier        No. 1 Company; Promoted to Farrier Sergeant-Major 17/7/1901
WISE          Percy Frederick            Private                 No. 2 Company; Acting Quartermaster-Sergeant 22/5/1901
WITHERINGTON  Laurence Hernsted          Private                 No. 1 Company
WRIGHT        Francis William            Private                 No. 2 Company
YOUL          Thomas Arndel              Private                 No. 1 Company



The information above was extracted and compiled in good faith from the
Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa,
compiled and edited in 1911 by Lieutenant-Colonel P.L. Murray, R.A.A. (Ret.).

Please treat the information with caution
and refer to primary sources for confirmation and further research.


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