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WAR PHOTOGRAPHY BRINGS THE ACTION TO THE PUBLIC |
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DATE: 1900-1999 |
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UNIT: War photography |
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War photography is a specialised business. Many of the best remembered photographs taken in the 20th Century involved war and the human suffering they caused.
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THE MEN OF INGLEWOOD FOUGHT IN THE BOER WAR |
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NAME: F Company |
DATE: 1899 - 1902 |
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UNIT: 1st Battalion, Victorian Rangers |
LOCATION: South Africa |
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The Victorian town of Inglewood had a strong community spirit in the late 1890s with mining and agriculture bringing great wealth to the region.
With this background, it was hardly surprising that when a call came to develop its own defence system in the form of a militia, there was great support for the plan. Members of the Inglewood Rifle Club were among the first to become members of the Inglewood F Company of the Victorian Rangers but it later expanded to include any skilled male from the district.
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TREACHERY LED TO DEATH OF YOUNG SOLDIER |
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NAME: William Abrahams |
DATE: 1900 |
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UNIT: Bega Mounted Rifles |
LOCATION: Driefontein, South Africa |
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Private William Abrahams was excited about taking part in the Boer War. He joined the Bega Mounted Rifles with a number of other young men from the district.
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CECIL GOT TO FIGHT IN BOER WAR THANKS TO HIS HAT |
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NAME: Cecil Ewens |
DATE: 1900 - 1901 |
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UNIT: South Australian Busmen's Corps |
LOCATION: South Africa |
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When the Boer War started in 1899, many young Australians made an instant decision to offer their services as soldiers, but actually getting into the various army units that were to head for South Africa wasn't as easy as you might expect.
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FAMILY CAUGHT UP IN THE BOER WAR |
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NAME: Charles Haslett |
DATE: 1900 |
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UNIT: Civilian |
LOCATION: South Africa |
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Things were tough in Australia in the 1890s with little work available in the building trade, so Charles Alexander Haslett, faced with a number of debts, decided to leave his home in Sorrento, Victoria, and try his luck in South Africa, where he planned to make a fresh start.
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TROOPER JONES – FIRST AUSTRALIAN TO DIE IN BOER WAR |
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NAME: Victor Jones |
DATE: 1900 |
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UNIT: 2/14 Queensland Mounted Infantry |
LOCATION: Sunnydale Farm, near Salt Lake |
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Trooper Victor Jones of the first Queensland contingent, 2/14 Queensland Mounted Infantry, was the first Australian to die in action in the Boer War when he was killed in an ambush on 1 January 1900.
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PRIVATE KELLY 'RAN AWAY' TO BOER WAR |
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NAME: Jack Kelly |
DATE: 1899 |
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UNIT: Tenterfield Mounted Rifles |
LOCATION: South Africa |
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Private Jack Kelly, from Tenterfield, NSW, was determined to take part in the Boer War. So keen was he to go that he defied his father's wishes and then "bought himself out" of his Artillery unit because it was not going to the war.
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ONLY ONE BROTHER RETURNED FROM BOER WAR |
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NAME: William Lilley |
DATE: 1902 |
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UNIT: 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
LOCATION: Northern Transvaal, South Africa |
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Two Lilley brothers, William and Dave, joined the 5"' Queensland Imperial Bushmen to fight in the Boer War but only one of them returned.
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MCVINISH FAMILY MEMBERS SERVED IN ALL CONFLICTS |
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NAME: Colin John McVinish |
DATE: 1901- 1902 |
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UNIT: 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
LOCATION: South Africa |
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When two brothers, Colin John and George McVinish, migrated to Australia from Scotland in the late 1800s they had no idea they would be starting a chain of events that would lead to members of their family taking part in virtually every conflict involving Australian troops that followed.
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HARDSHIP IS NOT THE NAME FOR PRIVATE POPE AND HIS MATES |
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NAME: Walter Pope |
DATE: 1900 |
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UNIT: NSW Mounted Rifles |
LOCATION: Camp Bloemfontein |
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Private Walter Pope served with the NSW Mounted Rifles during the Boer War, surviving many battles, but like many of his countrymen he caught dysentery, bronchitis and rheumatic fever before being repatriated.
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