KELK, Eustace
| Service Number: | 145 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11 July 1876 |
| Home Town: | Hemmant, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Wynnum, Queensland, Australia, 15 April 1946, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Hemmant Cemetery and Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland Plot: Portion C, Section 1, Grave 22 |
| Memorials: | Brisbane Grammar School Boer War Honour Board |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 145, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 145, 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. | |
| 10 Aug 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 145, 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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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Eustace Kelk was born on 11 Jul 1876 at Brisbane, Queensland, a son to Edward Kelk and Mary Elizabeth Kelk (nee Brookes). His father Edward, an ironmonger, was a pioneer of the area and when Eustace enlisted his parents were living at their residence that they had named 'Lindum-Mere' in an area that became the suburb Lindum (now a locality in the suburb of Wynnum West).
He married Mary Jane Yeo on 25 Jun 1902 and they would live in the Wynnum area where they raised 7 children.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 482; Lindum-Queensland Places, University of Qld centre for the government of Queensland).
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