FALLIS, Richard
| Service Numbers: | 65, 626 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | 1873, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boarding House Keeper |
| Died: | Chermside, Queensland, Australia, 6 December 1933, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld Plot: Church of England 3, Section 19A, Grave 84 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 65, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 1 Mar 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 65, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 463 notes 3rd QMI embarked 1 Mar 1900 aboard Duke of Portland arriving Cape Town 2 Apr 1900. | |
| 4 Aug 1900: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 65, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 468 notes slightly wounded at Ottoshoop, East Rhodesia 4-16th Aug 1900 | |
| 21 Jun 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 65, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 465 notes 3rd QMI embarked 9 May 1901 at Cape Town returning to Australia aboard Morayshire arriving Sydney 7 Jun 1901 (rail to Brisbane), disbanded 21 Jun 1901. | |
| 20 Aug 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 626, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes part of 1st Draft of 6th QIB embarked at Sydney 20 Aug 1901 aboard Britannic arriving Cape Town 22 Sep 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 626, 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
Richard Fallis served twice in the South African (Boer) War. Firs service was as a Private S.N. 65 in the 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, second service was as a Private S.N. 626 in the 1st draft of the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen. Newspaper report has him remaining in South Africa for further service when the remainder of the 6th QIB returned to Australia, his discharge date is assumed to be when unit was disbanded.
(source AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 468 & 518).
Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Richard Fallis served twice in the South African (Boer) War. First service was as a Private S.N. 65, 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry. Second service was as a Private S.N. 626, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen (1st Draft).
When he joined the 3rd QMI in 1900 and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 3 Mar 1900, it was noted he was single from Gotha St, Brisbane. He was invalided from this service returning to Australia aboard Tongariro and was discharged at Brisbane on 17 May 1901.
He then later joined again with the 6th QIB and was selected as part of the 1st Draft of the 6th that embarked on 20 Aug 1901, some 4 months after the main 6th QIB had left. The men selected in the 1st Draft in the main consisted of men who had previously served in previous contingents in South Africa, and were being sent as reinforcements for the 5th and 6th QIB contingents already in South Africa.
The men in the draft were not entered on the original nominal roll of the 6th QIB. He was, however, recorded in the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB (to which he was allotted), Bk 4 p. 64, where it is noted he directed part of his pay to Miss Ellen Tuite, Bath Villa, Leichhardt St, Brisbane, whom he would later marry.
Newspaper report in The Brisbane Courier, 16 May 1902, notes when the 5th QIB returned to Australia, 626, Private Richard Fallis, remained in South Africa for further service. He later returned to Brisbane aboard Norfolk where he was discharged on 14 Aug 1902.
Shortly after his discharge he married Ellen Tuite on 3 Sep 1902 in Brisbane. Sadly, Ellen passed suddenly at their home on 30 Oct 1903. In a report on her death in The Telegraph (Brisb), 31 Oct 1903, it noted her husband Richard was a boarding-house keeper at Boundary St, Brisbane. Details of Richards birth were unable to be sourced but on his passing in 1933 the Qld BDM death register records him as the son of Alexander Fallis and Mary Fallis (nee Hamilton).
(source AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 468 & 518; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 3rd QMI, Bk 2 p. 30, and 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 64).
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