Duncan William SMALL

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Service Number:	93
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	4th Victorian Imperial Bushman
Born:	Mortlake, Victoria, Australia, 1 March 1867
Home Town:	Mortlake, Moyne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Hairdresser
Died:	Fall from a Horse resulting in a brain injury, Mortlake, Victoria, Australia, 2 February 1901, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Mortlake Cemetery, Victoria Buried in family grave.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Mortlake Boer War Memorial

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 93, Victorian Imperial Bushmen
1 May 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 93, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, Departed Port Melbourne on SS "Victoria". Disembarked at Beira in Portuguese Mozambique on 25 May 1900. Entrained to Rhodesia on 23 June 1900.
23 Jun 1900:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 93, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, Regimented into Rhodesian Field Force prior to invading the Transvaal.
16 Nov 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 93, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, Invalided back to Victoria on SS Sophocles. Disembarked at Port Melbourne on 6 Dec 1900.
2 Feb 1901:	Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 93, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman
2 Feb 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 93, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, His QSA Medal includes the Rhodesia bar.

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Duncan William SMALL was born in Mortlake, Victoria in 1867

His parents were Archiband SMALL & Margaret McRAE

Was invalided home fiom South Afnca owing lo a fall from his horse and later died of a brain injury