ELCOATS, Bertram Weatherly
| Service Number: | 476 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Maldon, Victoria, Australia, 1876 |
| Home Town: | Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Hospital Jos, Nigeria, West Africa, 25 March 1926, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 476, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 4 Mar 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Artificer, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 141, notes promoted to Artificer 4 Mar 1901. | |
| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Artificer, 476, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 16 Nov 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 476, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 141, notes reverted in rank to Private on 20 Jun 1901 and invalided returning to Australia aboard Aberdeen arriving Brisbane 13 Nov 1901, discharged 16 Nov 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Incorrect surname recorded on original nominal roll and by Murray as Elcoats, correct surname of Elcoate recorded in the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB. His younger brother Aubrey Tom Johnstone Elcoate S.N. 212 also served in the Boer War with the 6th QIB. They both recorded their N.O.K. on the respective original nominal rolls, as their mother Mrs. F. E. Morris, Toowong.
When Bertram Weatherly Elcoats (Elcoate) enlisted in 1901 in 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 Mrs. F. E. Morris, Earlthorne, Toowong. In the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, his N.O.K. is recorded as being his mother.
Bertram Weatherly Elcoate was born in 1876 at Maldon, Victoria, a son to John Weatherly Elcoate and Isabella Elcoate (nee Johnstone). By 1882 the family were living in Brisbane when his younger brother Aubrey was born. His father passed at Charters Towers in 1897. His mother Isabella Elcoate remarried to Frederic Ebenezer Morris in Queensland in 1898.
Bertram was invalided from South Africa and was discharged from the 5th QIB in Brisbane on 16 Nov 1901. At some point afterwards he made his way back to South Africa, presumably for employment. He married Margaret Anne Hamp Adams on 24 Aug 1904 at Woodstock, Goodwood, Cape Province, South Africa, and they had at least one child. It is unclear whether they later relocated to Nigeria, or whether he was there on business when he passed in hospital in Nigeria on 25 Mar 1926.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 503; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 7; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 141; FamilySearch online genealogy- Bertram Weatherly Elcoate; BDM Queensland and BDM Victoria- online registers).
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