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Trooper (Bugler) Thomas Milne

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Thomas Gibb Milne

Ancestor's date of birth: 30/06/1885

Ancestor's date of death: 24/06/1962

Cause of Death: Not Stated

Service Number: 339

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided

Unit: 2nd NSW Mounted Rifles

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR (Bugler), Date Effective: Detail not available

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not serve after the Boer War

Murray Page: 118

Contingent: Fifth New South Wales

Ship: Custodian or Maplemore, Date of Sailing: 15/03/1901

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal Medal, Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal, Clasps; King's South Africa Medal Medal 1901 and 1902 clasps

Personal Characteristics: Born in Aberdeen Scotland.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: He was the Bugler for his Regiment. Served April 1901 - April 1902 in west then east Transvaal under Ingouville Williams.

Service and life after the Boer War: Worked for many years in the country and city with the Post Master General's Department [PMG].

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Margaret Mary Thomson, Earlwood NSW 2206
Relationship to Ancestor: Daughter


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