Ancestor's Name: Robert John Baldry
Ancestor's date of birth: Detail not provided
Ancestor's date of death: Detail not provided
Cause of Death: Post war natural causes.
Service Number: 139
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Victoria
Unit: 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: Detail not provided
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided
Murray Page: 234
Contingent: 2nd Victorian
Ship: Euryalus, Date of Sailing: 14 January 1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: Queen's South Africa medal With clasps Orange County, Johannasburg and Cape Colony
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: February 1900 December 1900 in northern Cape Colony, Free State, east Transvaal then west Transvaal; joined with 1st Vic. Mounted Rifles April-September 1900
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Victoria, where he was presented with an award by his unit, on 14/12/1900. Returned from the war to live in Morabin Victoria where he raised his family on a market garden.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Katherine Jane McInnes, Bendigo VIC
Relationship to Ancestor: Great (x4) Grandaughter
