Samuel Charles ATCHISON

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ATCHISON, Samuel Charles

Service Number:	17
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles
Born:	Shellharbour, New South Wales, 1876
Home Town:	Carlingford, Parramatta, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not known
Occupation:	Orchardist
Died:	Killed in Action, Wolvefontein, South Africa, Wolwefontein, Cape Colony, South Africa, 20 February 1900
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Parramatta Boer War Memorial

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 17
20 Feb 1900:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 17, 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Samuel Charles ATCHISON was born in Shellharbour, New South Wales in 1876

His parents were Samuel ATCHISON & Clarinda WATSON (nee THOMAS) who married in 1866 in Wollongong NSW His mother had previously married a William Tait WATSON in 1860 - she was born in Maidstone, Kent, England and his father Samuel was born in Tyrone in Ireland

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