QUIGLEY, Benjamin Joseph
| Service Number: | 398 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | New South Wales Citizen Bushmen |
| Born: | Araluen, NSW, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Burrowa, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Enteric Fever, Lichtenberg, South Africa, Lichtenburg, North West Province, South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 3 January 1901, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boorowa War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 398 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 398, New South Wales Citizen Bushmen |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.
LONDON, December 28, 1.40 p.m. — Private B. Quigley, of the New South Wales Bush Contingent, has died at Lichteaburg, from enteric fever.
(No. 398, Private B. J. Quigley, was a native of Araluen, and was once of those specially enrolled for the Bush. Contingent.)
' Lest We Forget '
[To the Editor of the Dispatch.]
Sir, — Having noticed that in your issue of Wednesday. 31st July, you drew attention of the people to the fact that troopers R. Wilson and D. J. Barrett, lost their lives in the South African war, and urged that a tribute to the memory of those brave lads should be erected by the people of the Braidwood district. I would like to inform the Braidwood people through the columns of your paper that we have sustained the loss of another brave lad in the person of Benedict Joseph Hickey (or B. J. Quigley, as he was known in the contingent) son of Mr. Michael Hickey, of Araluen.
Trooper Quigley went with the Bushmen's Contingent and died at the front of enteric fever.
I think the public men of Braidwood ought to stir themselves and make some effort to have a monument erected to the memory of our fallen brave, whose valour and patriotism moved them to sacrifice life and family ties fighting for the prestige of the British nation. Braidwood is, I believe, almost the only district which has not yet erected some memorial of its fallen heroes. I think Mr. Henry deserves great praise for the manner in which he has, at his own cost, entertained all our returned Braidwood soldiers.
Should a movement be inaugurated for the purpose I have mentioned, I will only be too glad to give my little mite towards it, and also to help the thing along as far as I am able.
Yours, &c,,
JOHN KENNEDY.
' Karakusha ' Araluen, 8th Aug., 1901.
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