LYSTER, James Sanderson
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant Colonel |
| Last Unit: | 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | Beaumaris, Anglesey, North Wales, 31 August 1850 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Army Officer, Clerk of Parliament, Colonial Militia (Australia) |
| Died: | St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, 15 January 1930, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Candie Cemetery St Peter Port, Bailiwick of Guernsey |
| Memorials: | Millers Point South African Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse | |
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| 18 Feb 1902: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 522 notes he commanded NSW units of the 1st BACH which embarked at Sydney 18 Feb 1902 aboard Custodian arriving Durban 19 Mar 1902. | |
| 19 Aug 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 522 notes 1st BACH embarked at Durban 11 Jul 1902 aboard Drayton Grange returning to Australia arriving Sydney 11 Aug 1902, disbanded 19 Aug 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
James (John) Sanderson Lyster was born on 31 August 1850 in North Wales. Undertaking military training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he served at several overseas postings before returning to England in 1877. He married Mary Anne Granet (b. Mauritius 1845, d. Moss Vale NSW 1943) in London in 1878.
Convinced by Sir Thomas McIlwraith to move to Queensland, he was appointed as a clerical clerk at the Legislative Assembly on 8 September 1881, for the sum of 200 pounds a year. Eventually returning to the military in 1884, he rose to the rank of acting commander of the Queensland Defence Force between 1899 and 1902.
He commanded the 1st Battalion of the Australian Commonwealth Horse in the South African War (Boer War) in 1902. Involved in the military on his return to Australia he played an important part in the development of the Commonwealth Military Forces. He died on 5 January 1930 at Guernsey. (Information taken from: Australian dictionary of biography, v.10, 1986)
(source- John Oxley Library, State Library Qld- biography with photo of Lieutenant Colonel James Lyster with Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, on board a ship, ca 1899).
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