HIVES, George Hay
| Service Number: | 41 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | 1874, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Jimbour, Western Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Stanmore Private Hospital, Sydney, NSW, 17 February 1915, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
South Head General Cemetery, Vaucluse, New South Wales S-I-GE-241 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 41, 2nd Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 6 Mar 1900: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 41, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 460 notes wounded at Klipdam Farm 3 Mar 1900. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Private George Hay Hives of Jimbour, Queensland. 2nd contingent of Queensland Mounted Infantry, was wounded on his first encounter with Boer at Klipdam Farm near Bloemfontein, 6 March 1900. Extracted from description provided with photograph held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Private George Hay Hives of Jimbour, Queensland. 2nd contingent of Queensland Mounted Infantry, was wounded on his first encounter with Boer at Klipdam Farm near Bloemfontein, 6 March 1900. (Description supplied with photograph.) The light horseman's uniform differed only slightly from that of the common soldier's drab khaki, namely, by the addition of polished leather accoutrements and spurs. This was crowned with the Australian felt hat, so closely associated with the ethos of the digger. Yet in the light horseman's case, the slouch hat was often adorned with what became their most distinctive embellishment - the emu feather plume. This plume became the symbol of the light horse.
(Information taken from The Australian War Memorial website, 2004, retrieved 30 May 2004, from http://www.awm.gov.au)
HIVES.—On the 17th February, at Stanmore Private Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, George Hay Hives, of Sandy House, near Wondai, Queensland, aged 41 years.
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