HODGE, William
| Service Number: | 356 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Scotland, United Kingdom, 1876 |
| Home Town: | Hill End, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter, Builder |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19 February 1940, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Columbarium 2 | Section 3 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 356, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 356, 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. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 356, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Remained in South Africa for further service when 5th QIB returned to Australia. Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 23, notes returned to Australia aboard Columbia arriving Brisbane 15 May 1902, discharge backdated to 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Served in both the South African (Boer) War and WW1:
- Private S.N. 356, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War; and
- Sapper S.N. 16127, Field Company Engineers, AIF, WW1.
When William Hodge enlsited 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. J. Hodge, George St, Brisbane.
He enlisted again in 1916 for WW1 and on his Attestation Paper, dated 3 May 1916, it is noted that; he was born at Glasgow, Scotland, and was 39 years 11 months of age; he was single with the trade of builder; his N.O.K. was his mother Mrs. Mary Hodge, Hill End, Brisbane; and he had previously served in South Africa in the 5th QIB.
When he passed in Brisbane in 1940, a probate notice for his estate published by the Qld Public Trustee in The Courier Mail, 6 Apr 1940, noted his name was William Findlay McKellar (commonly known as William Hodge).
William Findlay McKellar (William Hodge) was born in 1876 at Glasgow, Scotland, a son to Adam Walker McKellar and Mary Findlay, as shown on online BDM ScotlandsPeople birth registration and BDM Qld death registration. It appears his father passed in 1879, and his mother Mary McKellar then remarried in 1882 in Scotland to John Hodge with the young William in turn taking his stepfather's surname.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 501; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 23; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record; Probate Notice- The Courier Mail, 6 Apr 1940, p. 18; ScotlandsPeople and Queensland online BDM registers).
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