Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Mitchell Henry Edward Lloyd

Ancestor's date of birth: 10/02/1876

Ancestor's date of death: 01/06/1928

Cause of Death: Detail not provided

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Worked as a labourer in New Norfolk, Tasmania where he had been born 25 years previously.

Service Number: 1225

Colony or State of enlistment: TAS, Place of Enlistment: Hobart

Unit: 1^st Australian Commonwealth Horse (Tas)

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 15/01/1902

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

Murray Page: 569

Contingent: First Australian Commonwealth

Ship: Custodian, Date of Sailing: 16/02/1902

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal and South Africa 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Height 168 cm of medium complexion with brown eyes and dark hair.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.

Details of service in war: March - May 1902 on Natal border and west Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 9-13 August 1902 on the Drayton Grange. No further details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Julie Sullivan, Balwyn North VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grandaughter

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