TREYVAUD, Albert John
| Service Number: | 239 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Sebastopol, Victoria, Australia, 22 April 1861 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Civil servant-Post Office |
| Died: | Lilydale, Victoria, Australia, 17 August 1955, aged 94 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery, Victoria, Australia C/E DS 26 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Driver, 239, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles | |
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| 13 Jan 1900: | Embarked Departed Melbourne: SS Euryalus 13 January 1900. Raised predominantly on the Mounted Rifle Regiment, formed by Lt-Col Tom Price in 1885, and Victorian Rangers, militia including the battalions of the Infantry Brigade and some from the Royal Australian Artillery. Price was the only Australian Colonial Officer placed in command of British units during the Boer War. |
Boer War Farewell
Alberts mother Mary Ann writes to cousin William J Henderson in Canada on 21 Jan 1900,
'I hope you received the newspaper I sent you with the photograph of the Second Victorian Contingent. My second son Albert is one of them. Albert has been in the Melbourne post office for about 13 years and he has got 12 months leave more or less to go to the (Boer) war. Two nights before leaving for Africa he got a send off from the post office in the shape of a smoke night at which he was presented many presents which were a silver watch box and Sovereign purse combined with a suitable inscription also tobacco, cigars, a silver mounted pipe and knife. The Postmaster General, the Deputy P.M General and a number of gentlemen were on the platform also Albert's father, brothers and brothers in law. After the meeting Albert was carried shoulder high to the railway station on his way to the camp. The previous evening he was presented by his own battery with a silver mounted flask full of whisky and a pocket compass. The latter may prove very useful to him in Africa
Submitted 23 April 2021 by Leigh Treyvaud
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