Alexander ESLER

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Service Number:	1280
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Saddler Sergeant
Last Unit:	3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Ballymena, County Antrime, Northern Ireland, 7 February 1856
Home Town:	Whitton, Leeton, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Saddler
Died:	Cootamundra, NSW, 7 November 1941, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cootamundra General Cemetery
Memorials:

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Trooper, 1280, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles
15 Mar 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Saddler Sergeant, 1280, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles, The regiment left Sydney on 15th March, 1901. It consisted of 33 officers and 673 of other ranks, with 700 horses, and disembarked at Port Elizabeth, 17th April. Of these, 2 officers and 23 others were killed or died, 3 officers and 10 others were struck off the strength in South Africa, 28 officers and 640 others returned to Australia. Embarked at Cape Town on 4th May, 1902; called at Albany on 21st May, Melbourne, 29th May, and disembarked at Sydney, 4th June.
23 May 1902:	Transferred Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Saddler Sergeant, 3rd New South Wales Imperial Bushmen, Listed as left behind to merge with the 3rd NSW Imperial Bushmen. See article attached.

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