CULLEN, George James
| Service Number: | 220 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1 May 1871 |
| Home Town: | Kerang, Gannawarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Typhoid, Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 3 September 1900, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Church Street Cemetery, Pretoria, South Africa |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square) |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 220 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 220, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles | |
| 13 Jan 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 220, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, Embarked from Port Melbourne for Cape Town on the "Euryalus" Troop Transport. | |
| 5 Feb 1900: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 220, The Boer Offensive | |
| 3 Sep 1900: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 220, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, D.O.D. (buried in Pretoria) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Maurice Kissane
George James Cullen was a Farmer from Kerang in Victoria. He was born in 1871. The fourth of nine children born to Mr & Mrs John Cullen of Ballarat.
George married Susan Hunter White just before he enlisted in 1900. Tragically, George died not from Boer bullets but from the ever present Typhoid. His widowed wife never remarried. Susan lived out her life in Kerang, without her beloved husband George. For his Boer War service, dedicated to HM Queen Victoria and preserving Her Empire, had resulted in his death. That ended their rather short but loving marriage.
The Citizens of Kerang presented a Gold Locket to the widow of CPL George Cullen on 6th December 1900.
Lest We Forget.
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