DAVIDSON, John Macintosh
| Service Number: | 199 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Macduff, Banff, Scotland, United Kingdom, 18 February 1861 |
| Home Town: | Townsville, Townsville, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Heart Failure, Mareeba, Queensland Australia, 27 December 1926, aged 65 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mareeba Pioneer Cemetery, Queensland, Australia |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 199, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 1 Nov 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 199, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 448 notes 1st QMI embarked 1 Nov 1899 aboard Cornwall arriving Cape Town 13 Dec 1899. | |
| 1 Jul 1900: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 1st QMI, Bk 1 p. 34, notes promoted to Corporal 1 Jul 1900. | |
| 23 Jan 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 199, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 449 notes 1st QMI embarked 13 Dec 1900 returning to Australia aboard Orient arriving Brisbane 17 Jan 1901, disbanded 23 Jan 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When John Macintosh (Mackintosh) Davidson enlisted in 1899 in the 1st QMI and his details were published with the rank and file in The Brisbane Courier, 18 Nov 1899, he was recorded as Private J. M. Davidson, married, Flinders St. West, Townsville. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 1st QMI, Bk 1 p. 34, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his wife Mrs. J, M. Davidson, Flinders St. West, Townsville.
He served the full tour of the 1st QMI returning to Brisbane where he was discharged on 23 Jan 1901.
John Mackintosh Davidson was born on 18 Feb 1861 at Macduff, Banff, Scotland, a son to John Davidson and Jane Davidson (nee Mackintosh). In the latter part of the 1880s he had ventured to South Africa where he worked in the Kimberley Diamond Mines. He married Mary McMurtrie on 20 Aug 1889 at Johannesburg. They had 1 child in South Africa in 1890 who sadly passed in 1896.
A year later they had relocated to Queensland where the next of their 7 children was born. When he enlisted in 1899 they were residing in Townsville. After returning from the war they ventured to the Atherton Tablelands and resided at the town of Wolfram, in the shire of Mareeba, where he worked mining the mineral Wolfram.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 452; National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier; Australian Boer War Memorial- database bio; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 1st QMI, Bk 1 p. 34).
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