CATCHLOVE, George Edward (Edwin)
| Service Number: | 128 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Last Unit: | 4th Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Echunga, South Australia , 9 June 1870 |
| Home Town: | North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Commercial Traveller |
| Died: | Glenelg, South Australia, 10 August 1947, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Corporal, 128, 4th Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 25 May 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, from Sargeant |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Paul Wiebusch
extract of Diary of Frederick H Farley
July 24th Ten oclock. The convoy is just entering a small town Vredefort.
½ past 2. There has been a great go in to-day south of the town. The guns & the pom poms have been at it continually for the last four hours. Five Boer waggons have been brought in & a lot of prisoners All the men with the convoy were called out & stationed on a hill near the town as it was thought that the Boers would retreat or try to break away that way, but they did not & we had our tramp for nothing.
Trooper Nicholas of Lyndoch S Australia was shot dead to-day & Tothill & Moore are shot through the body & not expected to live. Tate, Thorn & Catchlove, are wounded & a lot of horses shot, it has been the worst day we have had yet. My horse is just about done.
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