Harry SPIERS

SPIERS, Harry

    Service Number: 1016
    Enlisted: Not yet discovered
    Last Rank: Trooper
    Last Unit: 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles
    Born: Crookwell, New South Wales, Australia, 20 July 1881
    Home Town: Crookwell, Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales
    Schooling: Toowoomba Grammar School, Queensland , Australia
    Occupation: Tailor
    Died: Enteric Fever, Pretoria, South Africa, 20 February 1902, aged 20 years
    Cemetery: Church Street Cemetery, Pretoria, South Africa
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crookwell Boer War , Crookwell War Memorial, Goulburn Boer War Memorial, Sydney St. James Anglican Church 2nd Regiment Mounted Rifles Boer War Memorial Window and Plaque, Toowoomba Grammar School South African Honour Roll
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    Boer War Service

    1 Oct 1899: Involvement Private, 1016, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles
    20 Feb 1902: Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 1016, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles

    Private Harry Spiers

    Some years ago the residents of Crookwell and District erected a memorial to Private Harry Spiers, the memorial is located in Memorial Park in Crookwell. The inscription says, In Memory of Private Harry Spiers of the 2nd NSW Rifles who died at Pretoria of Enteric Fever while on service on 20.02.1902, age 21 years.

    Submitted 20 July 2016 by Robyn Moran

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    Harry SPIERS was born in Crookwell, NSW in 1881

    His parents were Walter SPIERS & Martha THURKETTLE who married in Goulburn in 1881

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