TATE (TAITS), Arthur Randolph
Service Number: | 188 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Trooper |
Last Unit: | 4th Imperial Bushmen |
Born: | North Adelaide , South Australia , 23 February 1880 |
Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
Schooling: | Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia |
Occupation: | Wool Classer |
Memorials: |
Boer War Service
1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 188, 4th Imperial Bushmen |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Initially reported as killed, but wounded at Stinkpoutboom on July 24 1900
Trooper Tate was the youngest son of Professor Tate of the Adelaide University. He was a little over 21 years of age and wasone of the youngest members of the Imperial Bushmen's Contingent. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, and was afterwards engaged at the museum of the School of Mines. Then he entered upon a study of woolclassing at the School of Mines, a course which took him to a station in the North for season. Later on Trooper Tate went into his father's orangery at Salisbury, from which he enlisted full of patriotic ardour. The deceased ws one of the most popular soldiers in camp. The news of his sad fate came on the fourth anniversary of the death of Professor Tate's eldest son George in Western Australia.