CARRUTHERS, John Stewart
| Service Number: | 206 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Dryfesdale, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 July 1965, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane Plot: 2F-8-438 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 206, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 206, 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. | |
| 2 Oct 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 206, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB Bk 2, p. 56, notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Sophocles arriving Brisbane 25 Sep 1901, discharged 2 Oct 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When John Stewart Carruthers enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father J. Carruthers, Brisbane. In his Boer War Dossier held by the National Archives is a letter to Army Records from his son N. J. (Neville James) Carruthers (b. 1930) in 1973 where he sought and recieved confirmation that his father served in the South African (Boer) War.
John Stewart Carruthers was born in 1883 at Dryfesdale, Scotland, a son to James Carruthers and Mary Ann Carruthers (nee Stewart). At the age of 5 he and 2 siblings emigrated with his parents to Queensland aboard the ship Jumna arriving Brisbane 13 Oct 1888. He was twice married. He married Ada Henrietta Muller on 2 Nov 1903 in Queensland and they had 6 children before they divorced in 1934. He then married Mary Lilian Griffin on 6 Jan 1938 in Queensland.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 497; National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier).