Alwyne Edward Francis Cornwallis MAUDE

MAUDE, Alwyne Edward Francis Cornwallis

Service Number: 31
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
Born: England, October 1880
Home Town: Manly, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Clerk
Died: Pneumonia & Measles, Mafeking, Cape Colony, South Africa, 20 August 1900
Cemetery: Mafeking Cemetery, North-West, South Africa
MEMORIAL ID: 204740
Memorials: Anzac Square Boer War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Private, 31
1 Oct 1899: Involvement Private, 31, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry
1 Mar 1900: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 31, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 463 notes 3rd QMI embarked 1 Mar 1900 aboard Duke of Portland arriving Cape Town 2 Apr 1900.
20 Aug 1900: Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 31, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, D.O.D. at Mafeking.

Alwyne Edward Maude

No evidence to date located of birth of Alwyne Edward Maude or Alwyne Esme Maude or any variation of those names, in England for the period 1870-1885.

In the 1891 Census, at a Private Boys School in St Mary's Terrace, Hastings, Sussex, there is a listing of an Alwyne E. Maude, nephew (to the Head of the house) and scholar, aged 10 and place of born entered as "America - British Subject". The Head of the House is a Mr Alex E. Murray, Principal of Private Boys School. (Source: 1891 UK Census: Archive reference RG12; Piece number 761: Folio 101; Page 10).

According to a Family History File online, his parents Katherine Lulu Campbell (daughter of John Colin Campbell) and Alywne Edward Campbell (son of George Ashley Maude) had married in New York in late 1880. There is a passenger list surviving for the period 22 Jul 1880-26 Aug 1880 of people arriving in New York. This shows Alwyne Maude, aged 25 from England as one of the Cabin passengers arriving in New York, aboard the "Germanic" (Source: "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSK-2LHL : accessed 8 May 2016), Alwyne Maude, 1880; citing NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm).

Alwyne's family life had been quite distressing, with his parent's estrangement in about 1890 and then his mother's tragic death in 1892. There are several references in English newspapers to Alwyne Edward Maude (sometimes Alwyne Edwin Maude), occupation "Manufacturer of Dresses", in association with the tragic death (allegedly by suicide) in November 1892 of his estranged wife, Katherine Lulu Maude, at the Great Western Hotel, Paddington, London (Source: Liverpool Mercury 21 November 1892, page 5).

There is a record of a Major Alwyne Maude, an Administrator sent out by the Wounded Allies Relief Committee to Corfu to assist administering the Nursing Unit they had despatched to the aid of the Serbian sick and wounded soldiers. This could be Alwyne's father. The National Archives (UK) have records of Alwyne E. Maude, with the rank of Administrator in the French Red Cross (Corps) (Source: National Archives WO372/13).

"Major Alwyne Maude, who a few months ago went out to Corfu as Administrator to the Nursing Unit despatched to the aid of the Serbian sick and wounded soldiers by the Wounded Allies Relief Committee.." (Source: The British Journal of Nursing, July 22 1916).

Alwyne Edward/Esme Maude emigrated to Australia on board the Orizaba, leaving London on 21 February 1896 and arriving in Albany, Western Australia on 29 March 1896. It travelled onto various other ports, including Sydney, which was where Alwyne, travelling as "Esme" Maude, would disembark. He lists his age as 16 and his occupation as Clerk (Source: findmypast.com.au - Passenger Lists leaving UK 1890-1960).

His trail 'goes cold' until 1899, the year Alwyne turns 19, when a newspaper notice publishes the marriage of MAUDE-GITTINS:

MAUDE-GITTINS.-On the 4th February, at Manly, by Rev. Albert E. Fox, Alwyne
Edward Maude, to Eva Ethel, daughter of T. Gittins, Esq., of Manly, and Tymboo,
Upper Logan.
(Source: 1899 'Family Notices', The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 11 February, p. 6.).

He enlists in the Third Queensland Contingent (who have his record down as Alwyne Edward Francis Cornwallis Maude) and four months after arriving with the Contingent in South Africa, poor Alwyne dies in Mafeking of measles and pneumonia on 20 August 1900.

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Biography

Alwyne Edward MAUDE was born in October 1880 in England as Esme MAUDE

He arrived in Sydney from England when he was 16 years old on the ship ORIZABA which left Tilbury Docks in London on 21.2.1896 and arrived in Sydney on 7.4.1896

His parents were Major Alwyne Edward MAUDE and Katharine Lucy CAMPBELL

His father was a Major in the Serbian Army -

Link to info on his father http://www.thepeerage.com/p1287.htm (www.thepeerage.com)

He married Eva Ethel GITTINS in 1899 in Queensland - she died in 1959

Alwyne enlisted in Queensland as a Private with the 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry - Colonial Military Forces

Link to photo of the  2nd mounted infantry in Queensland

http://www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/photos/qld.php (www.hagsoc.org.au)

He fought in the Siege of Mafeking

He died on 20.8.1900 in Mafeking, South Africa of Illness (Pneumonia & Measles) aged 19 years

Burial place is unknown

Alwyne is commemorated in two Australian  Boer War Memorials in A.C.T. & Brisbane,

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