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CAMERON, Cyril St Clair
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | 25 October 1899 |
Last Rank: | Major |
Last Unit: | 1st Tasmanian Mounted Infantry Contingent |
Born: | Nile, Tasmania, Australia, 5 December 1857 |
Home Town: | Nile, Northern Midlands, Tasmania |
Schooling: | Launceston Church Grammar School, Tasmanian, Australia. |
Occupation: | Professional Soldier |
Died: | Fordon, Tasmania, Australia, 22 December 1941, aged 84 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Service History
Boer War Service
1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Captain | |
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25 Oct 1899: | Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 1st Tasmanian Mounted Infantry Contingent | |
27 Oct 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 1st Tasmanian Mounted Infantry Contingent, Launceston on board SS Medic. | |
1 Dec 1899: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Major, 1st Tasmanian Mounted Infantry Contingent, South Africa | |
8 Dec 1900: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Major, 1st Tasmanian Mounted Infantry Contingent, Tasmania | |
16 Apr 1901: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches |
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