COLEMAN, Michael
| Service Number: | 497 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Laidley, Queensland, Australia, 16 September 1870 |
| Home Town: | Laidley, Lockyer Valley, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Slaughterman |
| Died: | Suicide, Hendra, Brisbane - Queensland, Australia, 14 April 1924, aged 53 years |
| Cemetery: |
Laidley Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 497, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 10 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 497, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB Draft embarked at Pinkenba 10 Mar 1901 aboard Chicago arriving Port Elizabeth 20 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 497, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 11, notes returned to Australia aboard Columbia arriving Brisbane 15 May 1902, discharge from 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Michael Coleman was part of a draft of men established to follow, and embarked some four days after, the main 5th QIB contingent to South Africa. The men in the draft were not included in the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives.
When he enlisted in 1901 with 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 father John Coleman, Laidley. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 11, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his mother Mrs. J. Coleman, Laidley.
Michael Coleman was born on 16 Sep 1870 at Laidley, Qld, a son to John Coleman and Julia Coleman (nee Hurley). He was working for O'Shea Brothers butchers of Rosewood, at their slaughteryards at Hendra in Brisbane, when it was reported that he suffered a gunshot wound resulting from his own hands and later died in the General Hospital on 14 Apr 1924.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 504; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 11).
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