Robert Lancelot RENWICK

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RENWICK, Robert Lancelot

Service Number:	2
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Company Quartermaster Sergeant
Last Unit:	6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 10 November 1879
Home Town:	Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Auckland, New Zealand, 16 January 1961, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 2
16 Mar 1901:	Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sergeant, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB p. 23, notes promoted to Sergeant 16 Mar 1901.
4 Apr 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sergeant, 2, 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, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 510 notes promoted to Company Quartermaster Sergeant 1 May 1901.
23 Jun 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 2, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 notes 6th QIB embarked at Durban 17 May 1902 aboard Devon returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 17 Jun 1902, disbanded 23 Jun 1902.

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Robert RENWICK and Margaret nee SMITH, Toowoomba, Qld.

Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

When Robert Lancelot Renwick enlisted in 1901 and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as R. Renwick, Toowoomba.

Robert Lancelot Renwick was born on 10 Nov 1879 in Toowoomba, a son to Robert Renwick and Margaret Renwick (nee Smith). He returned from the Boer War and was dicharged in Queensland in 1902. By 1914 he was residing in Auckland, New Zealand where he married Alice May McCarron on 1 Jun 1914 and they had one child. Tragically that child was born premature in Feb 1915 with his wife dying from childbirth complications on 14 Feb 1915 and the child dying 3 Mar 1915.

He married for a second time to Elsie May Curtis in 1916 in New Zealand and they had at least 1 child.

(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 510; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, p. 23; BDM NZ Online databases; various newspaper articles in links).

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