GATFIELD, Joseph Thomas
| Service Number: | 399 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, 1877 |
| Home Town: | Jondaryan, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 31 January 1944, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Columbarium 4, Section 2 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 399, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 399, 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. | |
| 27 Sep 1901: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 399, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 501, notes severely wounded at Mokari Drift, Caledon River 27 Sep 1901. | |
| 10 Feb 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 399, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 66, notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Manchester Merchant arriving Brisbane 3 Feb 1902, discharged 10 Feb 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Joseph Thomas Gatfield 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 his father W. Gatfield, Rosalie Plains, Qld. In the original nominal roll of the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, it is noted his father was at Rosalie Plains, Jondaryan. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 66, it is noted Joseph's address after discharge was Rosalie Plains, Jondaryan.
Joseph Thomas Gatfield was born in 1877 at Lancashire, England, a son to William Gatfield and Phoebe Morton Gatfield (nee Binns). He emigrated with his parents and siblings to Queensland where his father took up farming at Rosalie Plains, Jondaryan. He was farming with his father at "Fawley", Jondaryan, when his father passed in 1934. Joseph was later farming at Bymaroo before retiring to Brisbane where he was last living at Kangaroo Point.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 501; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 6; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 66).
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