WHIPPHAM, Reginald Augustus
| Service Number: | 164 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Company Quartermaster Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Roma, Queensland, Australia, 23 September 1880 |
| Home Town: | Hill End, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Died: | Bronchial Pneumonia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 15 November 1917, aged 37 years |
| Cemetery: |
Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland Plot: Portion 5. 37. 11. (01/492) |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 164 | |
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| 27 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. 171 notes promoted to Sergeant 27 Mar 1901. | |
| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sergeant, 164, 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. 513 notes promoted to Company Quartermaster Sergeant on 1 May 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 164, 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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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Reginald Augustus Whippham appears to have been recorded on the Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 513, with his surname spelt incorrectly. The Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, p. 171, held by the Qld State Archives notes his surname as Whipham as does his photo published in The Queenslander with the rank and file on 13 Apr 1901, p. 716, with his N.O.K noted as his mother Mrs. K. A. Whipham.
He also enlisted in WW1 under Reginald Augustus Whipham as a Lance Corporal S.N. 226 in the 2nd Light Horse Regiment AIF. In his Attestation Paper for this enlistment he notes his previous service in the Boer War and again gives his N.O.K. as his mother Mrs. K. A. Whipham. He is incorrectly recorded in the VWMA profile for S.N. 226 as K.I.A. when he actually died in Brisbane in 1917 from bronchial pneumonia as is recorded on the AWM Roll of Honour.
Reginald Augustus (Hay) Whipham was born on 23 Sep 1880 at Roma, Queensland, a son to Reginald Arthur Whipham and Catherine Angela Carrigg. He was unmarried at the time of his passing.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 513; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Pybooks 6th QIB, p. 171; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).
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