Name of Ancestor:
Robert William Lenehan
Ancestor's date of birth: 16/08/1865
Ancestor's date of death: 20/05/1922
Cause of Death: Cirrhosis of the Liver
Service Number: Officer, no service number.
Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: Sydney
Unit: 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles and Bushveldt Carbineers
Rank attained in Boer War: Major Date Effective: 01/02/1901
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Lieutenant Colonel Date Effective: 01/01/1913
Murray Page: 62
Contingent: 1st New South Wales
Ship: Not known Date of Sailing: 02/1900
Memorial details: Buried in Sydney
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with 6 clasps, Volunteer Decoration (VD)
Personal Characteristics: A larger than life solicitor who was an excellent leader.
Reasons to go and fight: He was a member of the New South Wales Military Forces before the war. He enlisted on 20 October 1990, aged 25, and had reached the rank of Major by 1898. He wanted to serve and dropped a rank to do so.
Details of service in war: Click Here for his biography and details of his service. He had the dubious honour of commanding he Bushveldt
Carbineers.
Post war Service: Served in the militia until the end of World War 1.
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