NOWLAND, Walter Richard
| Service Number: | 59 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Caletoota via Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, 16 July 1872 |
| Home Town: | Muswellbrook, Muswellbrook, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shire Clerk |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia, 19 August 1956, aged 84 years |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle Memorial Park, Beresfield, New South Wales Columbarium Wall- Drive Wall, Row ae, Plot 168. |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 59, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 1 Mar 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 59, 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, Private, 59, 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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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Walter Richard Nowland was born in 1872, son of William Nowland and Pauline Nowland (nee Underwood), at Caletoota near Muswellbrook NSW. Newspaper reports have him in Longreach Qld when he answered the call in 1900 to join up for the Boer War.
Following his return from the war he returned to settle in Muswellbrook where he was appointed Temporary C;erk of the Municipality of Muswellbrook on 21 Jun 1906. On 20 Feb 1907 he was appointed the full time Shire Clerk and served in the position 1949. National Archives Australia records show that he enlisted on 29 Aug 1918 for service in WW1, however, he was discharged on 2 Sep 1918 for 'having irregulary enlisted (being ove military age)'before he embarked.
(sources- Australian Boer War Memorial Database biography by his Oliver Sieur (great great nephew); AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 468; National Archives Australia WW1 service record.)
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