HELDER, John Oliver
| Service Number: | 248 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | England, United Kingdom, 1867 |
| Home Town: | Mount Morgan, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Doornlaagte, South Africa, Doornlaagte, Ramotshere Moiloa, Ngaka Modiri Molema, North West Province, South Africa, 28 September 1900 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 248 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 248, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 248, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
John Oliver Hilder (Helder) was born in England in 1867, a son to Alfred Hilder, and arrived in Queensland in 1885. At the time of his enlistment for the South African (Boer) War in 1900 it appears he gave his father as N.O.K living at Mount Morgan, Qld, and in newspaper reports at the time his surname was also presented as Helder. His christian names may have also been rearranged noting a memorial was erected at the Mount Morgan Cemetery, its assumed by his parents, that reads 'In Memory of Our Son, Oliver John Hilder, Trooper, Shot In, Transvaal War, Sept. 28th 1900'.
(sources- AWM Boer War Memorial, Murray p. 484 and 541; Australian Boer War Memorial Database Bio; Find A Grave Memorial, Mount Morgan Cemetery).
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