Tom BOYES

BOYES, Tom

Service Number: 123
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born: East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, 1873
Home Town: Manly, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Fatal Accident, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 15 November 1910
Cemetery: Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Private, 123, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
6 Mar 1901: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 123, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901.
5 May 1902: Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 123, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Thomas (Tom) Boyes was born in 1873 in East Yorkshire, England, a son to Thomas Scruton Boyes and Mary Boyes (nee Carr). He married Alice Maud Yates on 9 Feb 1898 at Mount Gravatt, Brisbane, and they had 6 children. The family were living at Manly, Brisbane, when he passed. He was involved in an accident that proved fatal while working as a labourer unloading a ship at the wharves in South Brisbane. 

(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 496; Magesterial Inquiry, The Brisbane Courier, 2 Dec 1910 p. 7; Treeofus Family History: Ancestors of Thomas Boyes, online).

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