Thomas Edward Page CARR

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CARR, Thomas Edward Page

Service Number:	363
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 6 February 1880
Home Town:	Cambooya, Toowoomba, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Licensed Victualler
Died:	Summer Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia , 29 September 1932, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	South Head General Cemetery, Vaucluse, New South Wales Plot: S-L-GE-38
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 363, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
6 Mar 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 363, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901.
5 May 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 363, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray P. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked 27 Mar 1902 at Cape Town aboard St. Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

When Thomas Edward Page Carr enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his mother Mrs. Carr, Eton Vale Station, Cambooya. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 30, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his mother Mrs. E. Carr, Eton Vale Station, Cambooya.

Thomas Edward Page Carr was born on 6 Feb 1880 at Warwick, Qld, a son to Robert Carr and Emily Carr (nee Page). He married Mabel Vaughan on 3 Oct 1903 and they had 1 child.

When Thomas passed at the age of 52 in Sydney an obituary to him was published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Oct 1932. It noted he was a native of Warwick, Queensland, and had been in the hotel business in parts of Queensland and New South Wales. He had been the licensee of the Bedford Hotel, Redfern, for 8 years and his wife had predeceased him by 4 years.

(AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 501; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 30; Obituary- The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Oct 1932, p. 17).

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