CRICHTON, Archibald Edward
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Kamptee, India , 1852 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Natural Causes , Brisbane, Queensland Australia, 12 November 1931 |
| Cemetery: |
Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Captain, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900. | |
| 20 Feb 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Karanuo arriving Brisbane 16 Feb 1901, commission cancelled 20 Feb 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Note- his son Lieutenant Aubrey De Pree Crichton also served in the same 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen contingent in the Boer War.
When Archibald Edward Crichton joined the 4th QIB in 1900 and was entered in the original nominal roll for the 4th Queensland Contingent, held by National Archives, he noted his N.O.K. as his wife, Albion House, New Sandgate Road, Clayfield. The Boer War Service Paybooks for the 4th QIB, Bk 1 p. 8, notes he returned to Australia, prior to the return of the contingent, aboard the Karamea via Hobart and Melbourne arriving in Brisbane on 16 Feb 1901 and discharged on 20 Feb 1901 the same day that his officers commission was cancelled.
His Crichton family had a long association with the military. Archibald Edward Crichton was born in Apr 1851 at Kamptee, India, East Indies, a son to General William Hindley Crichton C.B. and Emily Mary Crichton (nee Saxton). He married Mary Elizabeth Blastock in 1872 at Hampstead, London, England. It appears they had 11 children, 9 of which were born in Queensland. It is unclear when they arrived in Queensland but they were there by 1875 when the first of their children born in Queensland occured.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 479; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 4th Queensland Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 1; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 4th QIB, Bk 1 p. 8; Bio- FamilySearch.org).
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