KING, Colin Baumgardt
| Service Number: | 149 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Westmoreland, England, United Kingdom, 1878 |
| Home Town: | New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 22 July 1957, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 149, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 149, 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, 149, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Colin Baumgardt King was born in 1878 at Westmoreland, England, a son to Dr. William Moore King and Marian King. He ventured to Queensland with his parents who moved around the state residing at Innisfail, Brisbane and Charters Towers and other northern locations.
When he enlisted in 1901 with the 5th QIB for the Boer War he was living at New Farm, Brisbane, and he noted his N.O.K. as W. H. King at Hughenden, Qld. He married Helen Mary Hamilton on 23 May 1908 at Toowoomba, Qld, and they had 2 children. They were residing at East Brisbane and he was working as a motor mechanic when he enlisted for WW1 in 1915.
He served in both the South African (Boer) War and WW1. First service was as a Private S.N. 149 in the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War. Second service was as a Driver (rising to Staff Sergeant) in the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column and later 12th Field Artillery Brigade AIF, WW1.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 496; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record; Newspaper reports in links).
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