Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Arthur James Strickland

Ancestor's date of birth: 1877

Ancestor's date of death: 1964

Cause of Death: Old Age

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Miner

Service Number: 70

Colony or State of enlistment: WA, Place of Enlistment: Perth

Unit: 2^nd West Australian Mounted Infantry

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 01/01/19

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

Murray Page: 407

Contingent: Second Western Australian

Ship: Surrey, Date of Sailing: 03/02/1900

Memorial details: Detail not provided

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

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: March - November 1900 in north-west Cape Colony, Free State, and east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 8 December 1900 on the Woolloomooloo. Worked as a Plate Layer for the WA Government Railways. His two brothers served in World War 1, one of them was a Tunneller.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Brendan Cook, Riverton WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Grandson

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