Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Alan Aubrey Howard

Ancestor's date of birth: 1880

Ancestor's date of death: 1937

Cause of Death: Detail not provided

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Alan Howard was born at Mt Rankin near Bathurst in 1880. He was described as a station hand on enlistment. At the time of enlistment he and his family were resident at Eglinton, near Bathurst.

Service Number: 1242

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Bathurst

Unit: 'C' Squadron, 3^rd NSW Mounted Rifles

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 01/03/1901

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

Murray Page: 131

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: SS British Princess, Date of Sailing: 21/03/1901

Memorial details: Buried Cobar NSW, War Memorial Bathurst NSW

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: April 1901 - April 1902 in Free State and East Transvaal including Boer breakthrough at Langverwacht (24 February 1902) under the CO LTCOL Charles Cox. During his service he contracted Dengue Fever.

Service and life after the Boer War: He continued working in agriculture and died at Cobar, NSW until he passed away in 1937.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Robert Peard, Duramana NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew

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