LAMROSE, George
| Service Number: | 224 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Victoria, Australia, 1883 |
| Home Town: | West End, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Storeman, Cleaner |
| Died: | West End, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 August 1936, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland Cremated |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 224, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 224, 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, 224, 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
George Lambrose (Lamrose) was born Alexander Constantine Lambrose in 1883 in Victoria, Australia, a son to George Lambrose and Ellen Lambrose (nee Cronican). He moved with his parents to Brisbane, Queensland, at an early age. He married, under the name of George Lambrose, Mary Ann Coote on 3 Apr 1907 in Brisbane and they had one daughter. He had worked at The Brisbane Labor Daily Newspaper Company for 23 years and was known as a "good labor man".
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 484; The Queenslander newspaper, 19 May 1900 p. 938; BDM Victoria historic birth records; Obituary- Worker, 25 Aug 1936 p. 13).
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