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Essendon and the
Boer War, 1899-1902


This page created 24 July 1998
  Updated 9 May 2006


Essendon and the Boer WarEssendon and the Boer War, with letters from the Veldt, 1899-1902

by Lenore Frost


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The following names are recorded on the South African War Memorial in Queen's Park, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia:
Aitken, W 
Barnes, T 
Bastian, W H 
Bloomfield, T 
Boyhan, P 
Brabazon, J 
Brace, R F 
Burness, J B 
Dwyer, T 
Findlay, W 
Fison, W 
Fitzgerald, A W 
Fitzgerald, G T 
Gilbert, C 
Heritage, J 
Jennings, J T 
Kelley, C 
Kelley, R 
 Lamb, J   (K.I.A)
Le Patourel, A M
 Locke, H 
Lonie, W 
McMasters, S 
Masters, C J 
Moule, G 
Noble, J 
Norwebb, H 
Riley W H 
Sadler, L A 
Sanson, G H 
Sanson, W E 
Showers, A 
Smith, R G 
Thompson, H  J 
Thompson, P W 
Tredrea, H 
Vercoe, J 
Whitbourne, H 
Willett, P 
Woods, T 
See photos of the Essendon Memorial on the HAGSOC website   link updated
 
The above list of names was compiled in 1936, and being 34 years after the War, not surprisingly, quite a few of the names and initials were spelt incorrectly.

Corrections to errors in the above names recorded on the Monument

 
Bloomfield, T        Should be Bloomfield, Walter John James
Burness, J B        Should be Burness, James Percy
Findlay, W           Should be Findlay, Arthur William
Gilbert, C             Should be Gilbert, Edmund Burke
Kelley, R              Should be Kelly, Albert Edwin, (known as 'Dick')
Lamb, J                Should be Lamb, Henry Spencer
Sanson, G H        Should be Sanson, G R
Whitbourne, H      Should be Whidborne, Henry Elderton

The following names were not recorded on the monument, but from other evidence it appears that they were also Boer War veterans from the Essendon District.

Boake, Alfred Hogarth 
Boxall, Harry (KIA) 
Bunny, Gavan 
Canty, David Michael 
Craig, Andrew Frederick 
Craig, Cowan James 
Culliton, Frederick Samuel 
Dean, Melbourne 
Dean, Thomas Standen 
Duncan, J 
Edge, John William Davis 
Gordon, Huntley Campbell 
Grassham, Frederick 
Green, James 
Griffiths, Harry David 
Hodgson, Robert West 
Holt, Frederick Thomas 
Jackson, Henry George 
Jordan, Alexander  (KIA) 
McCormack, James 
Phillips, Arthur James 
Shreeve, James William 
Shuter, Reginald  Gauntle (Royal Irish Fusiliers) 
Skirving, Charles Reginald 
Tucker, William 
Wills, Harry Spencer




A plaque honouring the other volunteers from the Town of Essendon was added to the

original monument in December 2004, as pictured above. Photos of the other refurbished stones to follow.

lenore.frost@optusnet.com.au
 
Boer War & other military links
Anglo Boer War Memorials Project 
Anglo-Boer War Study Group of Australia
Anzacs - World War 1 research website
Australian and the Boer War   AWM information sheet
Australian Light Horse Association
Australian Service Nurses National Memorial
Australian War Graves in South Africa 1899-1902  updated
Australian War Graves Photographic Archive  updated
Australian War Memorial Boer War Nominal Roll Database
Australians at War
Australians in the Boer War   Online search facility. 
Australians Serving in the Boer War          Lists of serving soldiers
Black and White Budget     Photos of British Boer War soldiers published
in a British magazine. [UK]
Boer Commandos in the Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 
Boer War Records at the Australian Archives
Boer War South Africa 1899-1902
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Concentration camps during the South African War  




























          Defending Victoria Website - Boer War
          Horses in the Boer War
Military Historical Society of Australia     
          Military Honours - London Gazette WW1  
Military Images Webpage  
New Zealand's Participation in the South African War, 1899-1902  updated
          Perspectives: The South African War, Original and Contemporary Sources    
Roll of Honour Database of British casualties
  updated


Regiments of the Empire and Commonwealth
Research Resources (Dr McLachlan's Index of the Australian Contingent)
 
South African Military History Society

Tasmanians in the Boer War
 Troopship "Orient"  arrivals at Albany from Capetown, 1900
 
 Victorian Military Society [UK]         
War Memorials in Australia

Links check 1 September 2006