Whitmore Charles LOGAN

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LOGAN, Whitmore Charles

Service Numbers:	392, Officer
Enlisted:	15 August 1914
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	Sea Transport Staff
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 25 December 1881
Home Town:	Forest Hill, Lockyer Valley, Queensland
Schooling:	Unknown
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Natural causes, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 31 May 1957, aged 75 years
Cemetery:	Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
Memorials:	Forest Hill War Memorial, Laidley Memorial Park Gates

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 392
5 Apr 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 392, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, SS Victorian, Brisbane for South Africa
16 Jun 1901:	Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 392, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Slightly wounded at Mooifontein
18 May 1902:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 392, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, SS Devon, Durban for return to Australia - disembarking Brisbane 17 June 1902
18 Jun 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 392, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen

World War 1 Service

15 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, 2nd Light Horse Regiment
20 Aug 1915:	Embarked Captain, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney
2 Oct 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
12 Apr 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Captain, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HS Karoola, Suez for invaliding to Australia - disembarking Sydney 14 May 1916
12 Jul 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Medically unfit
21 Feb 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Sea Transport Staff, Enoggera
10 May 1917:	Embarked Captain, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Boorara, Melbourne
11 Jul 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Captain, Sea Transport Staff, HT Port Sydney, Suez for return to Australia - disembarking Melbourne 22 August 1917 then to Brisbane.
25 Aug 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, Sea Transport Staff

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Biography contributed

Whitmore Charles LOGAN was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 25th December, 1881

His parents were Whitmore LOGAN & Harriet Catherine JOSEY who married in Brisbane on 7th February, 1876

He married Muriel Jessamine BAILEY on 18th September, 1912in the Methodist Church in Laidley & 2nd marriage to Kathleen May BATE on 2nd June, 1920

Whitmore served in both the Boer War and WW1

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His son Whitmore Alexander Bailey LOGAN (SN 405077) died during WW2 in a Flying Battle on 8th December, 1941

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