Service number: 220
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit: Second Mounted Rifles, Vic
Service: Colonial Military Forces
Conflict: South Africa, 1899-1902
∼George was the fourth of nine children made up of four girls and five boys, all of whom were born in Victoria. He married Susan Hunter White in 1900 then went off to the Boer War in the same year, and did not return. His wife never married again. She died in Kerang, which is where some of George's brothers lived and died too. Her mum Isabella nee Hunter died there too, in 1881 aged 48, born 1833 (grave not located).
This is about George, from https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1713621:
Service number - 220
Rank - Lance Corporal
Unit - 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
Service - Colonial Military Forces
Conflict/Operation - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Conflict Eligibility Date - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Date of Death - 3 September 1900
Place of Death - Pretoria, South Africa
Cause of death - Typhoid/Enteric fever
Aged 30 years.
There is a reference to George being at the Boxer Rebellion too at vwma.org.au
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit: Second Mounted Rifles, Vic
Service: Colonial Military Forces
Conflict: South Africa, 1899-1902
∼George was the fourth of nine children made up of four girls and five boys, all of whom were born in Victoria. He married Susan Hunter White in 1900 then went off to the Boer War in the same year, and did not return. His wife never married again. She died in Kerang, which is where some of George's brothers lived and died too. Her mum Isabella nee Hunter died there too, in 1881 aged 48, born 1833 (grave not located).
This is about George, from https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1713621:
Service number - 220
Rank - Lance Corporal
Unit - 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
Service - Colonial Military Forces
Conflict/Operation - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Conflict Eligibility Date - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Date of Death - 3 September 1900
Place of Death - Pretoria, South Africa
Cause of death - Typhoid/Enteric fever
Aged 30 years.
There is a reference to George being at the Boxer Rebellion too at vwma.org.au
Service number: 220
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit: Second Mounted Rifles, Vic
Service: Colonial Military Forces
Conflict: South Africa, 1899-1902
∼George was the fourth of nine children made up of four girls and five boys, all of whom were born in Victoria. He married Susan Hunter White in 1900 then went off to the Boer War in the same year, and did not return. His wife never married again. She died in Kerang, which is where some of George's brothers lived and died too. Her mum Isabella nee Hunter died there too, in 1881 aged 48, born 1833 (grave not located).
This is about George, from https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1713621:
Service number - 220
Rank - Lance Corporal
Unit - 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
Service - Colonial Military Forces
Conflict/Operation - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Conflict Eligibility Date - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Date of Death - 3 September 1900
Place of Death - Pretoria, South Africa
Cause of death - Typhoid/Enteric fever
Aged 30 years.
There is a reference to George being at the Boxer Rebellion too at vwma.org.au
Rank: Lance Corporal
Unit: Second Mounted Rifles, Vic
Service: Colonial Military Forces
Conflict: South Africa, 1899-1902
∼George was the fourth of nine children made up of four girls and five boys, all of whom were born in Victoria. He married Susan Hunter White in 1900 then went off to the Boer War in the same year, and did not return. His wife never married again. She died in Kerang, which is where some of George's brothers lived and died too. Her mum Isabella nee Hunter died there too, in 1881 aged 48, born 1833 (grave not located).
This is about George, from https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1713621:
Service number - 220
Rank - Lance Corporal
Unit - 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
Service - Colonial Military Forces
Conflict/Operation - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Conflict Eligibility Date - South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
Date of Death - 3 September 1900
Place of Death - Pretoria, South Africa
Cause of death - Typhoid/Enteric fever
Aged 30 years.
There is a reference to George being at the Boxer Rebellion too at vwma.org.au
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