Boar war

Comment by Sylvia on February 5, 2018 at 15:56

Hi Tony,

What do you mean by marked? Do you mean marked with a gravestone? Or, remembered/acknowledged via a list of graves?

Sylvia

Comment by Tony.Gilpin on February 5, 2018 at 18:10

Hi Sylvia,

I was hoping that the actual spot might might be marked with a stone or something.

But I wasn't sure if the actual graves location would even be known. I have asked at the war memorial in Canberra a couple of times and have not been able to get an answer.

Cheers Tony

Comment by Sylvia on February 6, 2018 at 4:02

Have you tried Veterans' Affairs?:https://www.dva.gov.au/commemorations-memorials-and-war-graves/reme... includes some info on the Boer war and a contact page for "Australia's war dead commemorative enquiries": https://www.dva.gov.au/commemorations-memorials-and-war-graves/offi...And who knows you might be lucky with this other site. It contains some graves among the many shrines: https://familyhistoryact.org.au/boer_war/index.php

Comment by Tony.Gilpin on February 6, 2018 at 6:38

Thank you

I have tried the first one but that was a while ago and I think they have been updating boar war info so I will try again.

Cheers Tony

Comment by Sylvia on February 6, 2018 at 14:26

There are war graves listed among other graves on this site:

http://www.eggsa.org/librarySearch/searchGraves.htm

Comment by Tony.Gilpin on February 8, 2018 at 17:49

Hi Sylvia

Thank you so much I ended up contacting War Graves  through your contact and they have sent me a Photo of Alex's Head stone and some Information.

Thanks so much for your help I have been trying to find out some Information for along time.

Cheers Tony  

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