MAYO, Sydney Selwyn
| Service Number: | 1812 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 2nd New Guinea Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia, 1880 |
| Home Town: | Gosford, Gosford Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bookkeeper |
| Died: | Enteric Fever, No. 17 Stationary Hospital, Middleburg, South Africa, 11 March 1902 |
| Cemetery: |
Old Middelburg Municipal Cemetery, Mpumalanga, South Africa |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gosford Boer War Memorial, Sydney St. James Anglican Church 2nd Regiment Mounted Rifles Boer War Memorial Window and Plaque |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 1812 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 1812, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles | |
| 15 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 1812, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Embarked from Sydney. | |
| 23 Apr 1901: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 1812, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, Campaigned in the Transvaal. | |
| 11 Mar 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 1812, 2nd New Guinea Infantry Battalion, D.O.D. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Maurice Kissane
Sidney Selwyn Mayo is his registered birth name as per his attached 1880 NSW Birth Registation record. He was born at Raymond Terrance near Newcastle. The son of Richard and Margaret Mayo.
Sid as he would have been called, worked as a bookkeeper. He likely enlisted to escape from that dull office routine.
Though he would have been motivated to fight for Empire. That was seen as a duty. For Sid would have been following riveting newspaper accounts from the front. The Empire was connected via undersea cables.
He was a good horseman and a good shot. Hence Sid easily passed the strict riding and shooting tests.
He enlisted in the same unit that his older brother, Leslie Howard Mayo had joined. The both served in the 2nd NSW Mounted Rifles. Embarking from Sydney on 15 March 1901. They then both campaigned in the Transvaal. However, only one of these two brothers returned.
Sid had dodged Boer bullets in combat fell victim to the ever present enteric fever on 11 March 1902.
He rests in the military section of the Old Middleburg Municipal Cemetery in South Africa. Not far from Old Middleburg's No. 17 Stationary Hospital where he succumbed to fever.
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