BREYDON, Richard
| Service Number: | 4 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Company Sergeant Major |
| Last Unit: | 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Ireland, 6 November 1869 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Died: | St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 March 1949, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Plot: Garden Remembrance 1A Compt 29 13 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Warrant Officer II, 4, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 1 Nov 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Sergeant Major, 4, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 448 notes 1st QMI embarked 1 Nov 1899 aboard Cornwall arriving Cape Town 13 Dec 1899. | |
| 31 Mar 1900: | Imprisoned Battle of Sanna's Post , AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 453 notes taken as a POW at Sanna's Post on 31 Mar 1900, released 4 Jun 1900. | |
| 23 Jan 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Sergeant Major, 4, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Orient arriving Brisbane 16 Jan 1901, discharged 23 Jan 1901. Returned to permanent staff of Qld |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Richard Breydon was born on 6 Nov 1869 in Ireland, a son and one of 7 children to John Breydon and Jane Breydon (nee Savage). His father passed in 1880 and his mother emigrated with the family to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1880 settling in the town of Ramsay, Queensland.
It appears by 1896 he was living in Toowoomba, Queensland, and serving as a non-commissioned officer in the Queensland Defence Force. He spent time in England in 1898 undergoing military training. He would go on to join and serve with the 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry in the South African (Boer) War. Following his return from South Africa and discharge he appears to have been placed on permanent staff with the Defence Force and would go on serving in an instructional capacity with the Australian Defence Force moving to Melbourne, Victoria.
On 16 Sep 1903 he married Mary Donaldsen in Brisbane living at Kelvin Grove up until 1905 when they moved to Toowoomba (still serving as a instructor with the defence force), and back to Brisbane in 1913. They had 3 children during their time in Toowoomba and later Brisbane before moving to Victoria.
(source- The above is a summary extract from 'Capt Richard Breydon', Anzac Biographies by the Maryborough Military Museum- see the link on this profile to access the full biography).
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