Richard Charles HUTCHINSON MID

HUTCHINSON, Richard Charles

    Service Number: 126
    Enlisted: Not yet discovered
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
    Born: Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, 6 May 1876
    Home Town: Clermont, Isaac, Queensland
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Pastoralist
    Died: Cerebral Hemorrhage , Clermont, Queensland, Australia, 22 March 1927, aged 50 years
    Cemetery: Clermont Cemetery, Queensland
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    Boer War Service

    1 Oct 1899: Involvement Private, 126, Queensland Imperial Bushmen
    18 May 1900: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 126, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900.
    16 Apr 1901: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette- 16 May 1901, p. 2608
    10 Aug 1901: Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 126, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 477 notes 4th QIB embarked 5 Jul 1901 aboard Britannic returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 5 Aug 1901, disbanded 10 Aug 1901.

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    Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

    Richard Charles Hutchinson was born on 6 May 1876 at Wangaratta, Victoria, a son to Benjamin Clay Huthcinson and Jane Hutchinson (nee Farrell). At the time of enlisting for the South African (Boer) War he was living and working in Clermont, Qld.

    After the war he returned to work as a pastoralist in the Clermont area. He married Catherine Eleanor Hatfield on 12 August 1908 and had 4 children. 

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