LEE, Patrick
| Service Number: | 246 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 28 August 1876 |
| Home Town: | Goondiwindi, Goondiwindi, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 10 May 1941, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Toowong (Brisbane General) Cemetery, Queensland Plot: 10-81-44 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 246, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 246, 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. | |
| 6 Dec 1901: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 246, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 498 notes slightly wounded at Familie Hoek 6 Dec 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 246, 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
Also served in WW1, Private S.N. 159, 25th Infantry Battalion AIF.
When Patrick Lee enlisted 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 mother Mrs. Lee, Amby P.O., via Roma.
Patrick Lee was born on 28 Aug 1876 at Toowoomba, a son to Thomas Lee amd Alice Lee (nee Todd). His mother Alice passed in in 1919 at Amby and is interred at the Roma General Cemetery.
When he enlisted on 2 Mar 1915 for WW1 he noted on his Attestation Paper that; he was born at Toowoomba and was 37 years old; he was a labourer and N.O.K. was his sister Mrs. G. Ward, Mitchell, Qld; and he had previously served in South Africa in the 5th QIB.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 498; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).
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