John Charles HOAD KCMG, CMG, VD, MID

HOAD, John Charles

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: 28 October 1899
Last Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Last Unit: Special Service Officers
Born: Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 25 January 1856
Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Soldier
Died: Heart disease, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 October 1911, aged 55 years
Cemetery: St Kilda Cemetery, Victoria
Presbyterian Section Compartment B Grave 396
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Major General, Special Service Officers
28 Oct 1899: Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, Officer, Special Service Officers
2 Nov 1899: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, Special Service Officers, SS Medic, Adelaide as Special Service Officer with 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles for South Africa - arriving Capetown 26 November 1899.
2 Aug 1900: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, Special Service Officers, SS Damascus, Capetown for invaliding to Australia - arriving Melbourne 26 August 1900.
16 Apr 1901: Honoured Mention in Dispatches
19 Apr 1901: Honoured Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, For meritorious service in the South African War.

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Colonel J. C. Hoad, C.M.G., who has been selected to represent the Australian forces at the Russian v. Japanese war, has for some years occupied the  position of Deputy Adjutant-General and Chief Staff Officer on the Commonwealth Headquarters Staff. He is 48 years of age, and received his first  commission in 1884. Two years later he was appointed Staff Officer for the Cadet Corps, and subsequently was second in command of the Victorian Mounted rifles. ln1895 he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General to the Victorian forces, and on the arrival of Major-General Sir Edward Hutton to reorganise the Commonwealth forces he was appointed lo the general's staff as Chief Staff Officer. During 1890-91 Colonel Hoad underwent an  extensive course of military training in England, being successively attached to the staff ef Mounted Infantry at Aldershot, the School of Signalling at  Aldershot, the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, the School of Musketry at Hythe, and during the autumn manoeuvres in 1890 he was one of  General Sir E. Wood's personal staff. He represented the Victorian Headquarters Staff at the Queen Victoria Jubilee celebrations in London, and was  attached to the personal staff of Karl Roberts, who then held the rank of Field-Marshal. During his visit to England Colonel Hoad had the opportunity of  further extending his military knowledge by forming part of the staffs of his Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught av.d Major-General Lord Methuen.  He took part in the South African war, and was in command of a composite Australian regiment. Subsequently he was placed on the staff of an  Australian mounted infantry brigade and took part in the action in Colesburg, the advance on Kimberley and further operations in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. He was mentioned in despatches, and received the Queen's medal with three clasps, in addition to the order of C.M.G.

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