Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: John Everett Lumley
Ancestor's date of birth: 16/05/1880
Ancestor's date of death: 21/05/1919
Cause of Death: Admitted to the Broken Hill Hospital with Paralysis
Service Number: 941
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Lismore
Unit: NSW Lancers.
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not advance in rank, left the Regiment soon after his return to serve with the NSW Police.
Murray Page: 11
Contingent: First New South Wales, Third Lancer Draft
Ship: Australian, Date of Sailing: 16/02/1900
Memorial details: Anglican Section of the Broken Hill Cemetery
Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal, Johannesburg and Diamond Hill clasps.
Personal Characteristics: John Lumley had only been a member of Lismore half Squadron of the Lancers for a short time when he volunteered to serve with the third Lancer Draft.
Reasons to go and fight: A serving Lancer.
Details of service in war: Trooper Lumley served with the Lancers from the Ventersberg Road engagement until the squadron left the field at Wiktop. May - December 1900 in Free State, and east Transvaal; with French's cavalry division including sweep to Heidelberg (October 1900).
Service and life after the Boer War: After his return from the war he joined the NSW Police Force. He married Alice Young at Lithgow and had two children Dorothy and John. He was serving with the Police at Broken Hill when he died on 21 May 1919. (MJ Buckley Sword and Lance, Lismore 1988, p240)
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Janette Hollebone nee Lumley, Sans Souci NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Niece
