DONALDSON, Robert Philp
| Service Number: | 329 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Mackay, Queensland, Australia, 27 February 1878 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 9 February 1938, aged 59 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland Plot: 12-24-3 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 329 | |
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| 25 Mar 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 111, notes promoted to Corporal 25 Mar 1901. | |
| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 329, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 329, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 notes 6th QIB embarked at Durban 17 May 1902 aboard Devon returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 17 Jun 1902, disbanded 23 Jun 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Enlisted under the name R. P. Donaldson. His full name Robert Philp Donaldson appears in the AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 516.
When R. P. (Robert Philp) Donaldson enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as K. E. Donaldson, Baulkham Hills, Parramatta, NSW. In the original Nominal Roll for the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, his N.O.K. is noted as his father K. E. Donaldson, Baulkham Hills, Parramatta, NSW. These entries contain a typographical error for his fathers name. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 111, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his father Mr. R. E. Donaldson, Balkham Hills, NSW.
Robert Philp Donaldson was born on 27 Feb 1878 at Mackay, Queensland, a son to Robert Edward Donaldson and Agnes Leys Donaldson (nee Philp). When his father passed at Brisbane in 1921, newspaper obituaries note he was a pioneer of the sugar industry at Mackay and later of Fiji and New South Wales.
Robert Philp Donaldson married Maud Evelyn Middleton on 22 Jan 1913 in Queensland and they had 2 children.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 516; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 5; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 111).
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