George Walter DALGLEISH

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DALGLEISH, George Walter

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
Born:	Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom, 17 October 1872
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Grammar School of Bury St. Edmonds Scotland
Occupation:	Clerk; Soldier
Died:	17 February 1919, aged 46 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cologne Southern Cemetery Plot: IX. G. 5.
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Lieutenant, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
1 Mar 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 463 notes 3rd QMI embarked 1 Mar 1900 aboard Duke of Portland arriving Cape Town 2 Apr 1900.
21 Jun 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 465 notes 3rd QMI embarked 9 May 1901 at Cape Town returning to Australia aboard Morayshire arriving Sydney 7 Jun 1901 (rail to Brisbane), disbanded 21 Jun 1901.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

George Walter Dalgleish was born on 17 Oct 1872 at Dumfries, Scotland, a son to John and Euphemia Dalgleish. He came to Queensland in 1887 working as a clerk and beginning his military training in 1896 with the No. 2 Feild Battery obtaining the rank of Lieutenant.

He served in the South African (Boer) War drawn from the Special Services Officers as a Leiutenant with the 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry. He remained in South Africa after his service joining the South African Constabulary where he married Janet D. Adams. He served with British forces in WW1 as Lientenant Colonel in the Royal Field Artillery, 2nd Div. Ammunition Col. initially in France. He died on 17 Feb 1919 in Germany.

(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 467; CWGC Memorial; newspaper articles in the links).

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