James Creolam NISBETT

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NISBETT, James Creolam

Service Number:	126
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Queensland, Australia, 21 September 1879
Home Town:	Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 21 August 1955, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland Plot: 28-77-16
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 126
4 Apr 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 126, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901.
1 May 1901:	Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 512 notes promoted to Corporal on 1 May 1901.
22 May 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 126, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Columbian arriving Brisbane 15 May 1902, discharged 22 May 1902.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

James Creolam Nisbett is noted in Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB as James Creelman Nisbett with N.O.K. his mother M. Nisbett at Sandgate Qld. He was born James Merry Creelmann Nisbett on 21 Sep 1879 in Queensland, a son to James Nisbett and Margaret Nisbett (nee Sommerville).

(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 512; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, p. 134).

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