FLOWER, Jonathan Thomas Winter
| Service Number: | 295 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Victoria, Australia, 1871 |
| Home Town: | Watsons Bay, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Moss Vale, New South Wales, Australia, 1 August 1921, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Moss Vale General Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 295 | |
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| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 295, 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. | |
| 10 Aug 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. 84, notes promoted to Corporal 10 Aug 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 295, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, His discharge date is not given in the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB so assumed to be as per AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 which notes 6th QIB disbanded 23 Jun 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Jonathon Thomas Winter Flower 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 J. H. Flower, Solicitor, Adelaide St, Brisbane. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 84, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his cousin Mr. J. H. Flower, Solicitor (Flower & Hart), Adelaide St, Brisbane.
Jonathon Thomas Winter Flower was born in 1871 in Victoria, a son to John William Crickmore Flower Master Mariner and Margaret Mary Flower (nee Kyle). When he passed in 1921 at Moss Vale, NSW, his death notice in The Sydney Morning Herald noted he was married to Maud Elizabeth Flower.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 515; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 84; Death Notice, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 Aug 1921, p. 10).
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