Ernest Ronald DAVES

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DAVES, Ernest Ronald

Service Number:	514
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	West End, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 514, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
10 Mar 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 514, 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.
26 Oct 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 514, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 26, notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Salamis arriving Brisbane 19 Oct 1901, discharged 26 Oct 1901.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Note- his name has been recorded differently in different documents; Ernest Ronald Daves in Murray's compilation of the AWM Boer War Nominal; Ronald Ernest Daves in the Boer War Service Paybooks for 5th QIB; and Ernest Roland Daves in The Queenslander newspaper, 16 Mar 1901.

When Ernest Ronald Daves enlisted in 1901, he 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. He is however, included in the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 26, and in newspaper reports.

His details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, where his N.O.K. is recorded as a friend Joe Drews, Turin St, West End, South Brisbane.

(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 504; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 26).

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