BREE, Reginald Stephen Robert Stapylton
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Bewsall, Hamilton, Victoria, 2 September 1880 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Southern Grampians, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Hamilton College, Victoria |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Enteric Fever, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 26 May 1900, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
President Brand Cemetery, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Hamilton Boer War Memorial, Hamilton Christ Church Boer War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, Officer, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
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Reginald Stephen Robert Stapylton BREE was born on 2nd September, 1880 in Bewsall, Hamilton, Victoria
His parents were Robert Edwin BREE and Annie Maria HENTY
He enlisted with the 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles (Lieutenant)
They left Victoria on 13th January, 1900 on the ship Euryalus bound for South Africa
Reginald died on 26th May, 1900 at Bloemfontein of Enteric Fever
Photo of his headstone
http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=3038020 (www.eggsa.org)
Further information on his birth and a photo of Reginald in uniform
http://www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/bios/bree.php (www.hagsoc.org.au)
Another photo of Reginald
http://glosters.tripod.com/OfficersB.htm (glosters.tripod.com)
Further information on the cemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86633105 (www.findagrave.com)
He is buried in President Brand Cemetery, Bloemfontaine, South Africa
Newspaper article - The Argus, Melbourne, 31st May, 1900
BREE On the 26th May at Bloemfontein of enteric fever, Lieutenant Reggie Stapylton Bree of the 2nd contingent of Victorian Mounted Rifles and also Lieutenant of the H Company V M R , eldest son of Robert and Annie Stapylton Bree of Bewsall, Hamilton and grandson of the late Rev. Robert Stapylton Bree of Tintagil, Cornwall, England and the late Hon. Stephen George Henty M L C of Portland, in his 20th year
He is commemorated at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and also at the Hamilton College in Victoria where he went to school
"In Memory of Reginald Stephen Robert Stapylton Bree formerly a pupil of this college who while fighting as a Lieutenant for his country in South Africa with courage as becomes a man, was seized with fever and died May 26, 1900
Australian War memorial
The Roll of Honour contains the names of all the men known to have served at one time with the 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles and gave their lives in service of Australia whether as part of the 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles or another unit during the Boer War
Roll of Honour: Reginald Stephen Robert Stapylton Bree
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