MALEY, Henry Kennedy
| Service Number: | 11 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Greenough, Western Australia, Australia, 17 June 1878 |
| Home Town: | Greenough, Geraldton-Greenough, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Perth High School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 26 February 1956, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 11, 2nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry | |
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| 3 Feb 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 11, 2nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry, ex Fremantle per transport Surrey for Capetown | |
| 7 Nov 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 11, 2nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry, per Woolloomooloo for Fremantle WA | |
| 7 Mar 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 11, 2nd Western Australian Mounted Infantry, On the 7th November the Company left Cape Town in the transport Woolloomooloo, and arrived, on the 8th December, at Fremantle. Disbanded on 7th March, 1901 (http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Henry was the tenth of fourteen children of John Stephen Maley (born 1839 in King George Sound (Albany) WA) and Elizabeth Kneist Waldeck (born 1841 in Perth, WA). Henry worked as a Clerk for contractors from the Midland Railway Co and then for Engineers in Kalgoorlie WA before enlisting with the 2nd Western Australian Contingent in the Boer War. He served as a Private (Service No: 11) andf returned to Greenough WA to take over management of the family farm, and was allocated land at Three Springs in 1906.
Henry married Mabel Louisa Bateman (born 1883 in Fremantle WA - a descendant of the pioneering Bateman family who first settled in Fremantle in 1830) in 1911 in Fremantle WA.
Henry served as Secreatry of the Greenough Roads Board from 1912 to 1916, and was a Country Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Greenough from 1917 to 1924, during which time he was Minister for Agriculture (1921 - 1924) and Leader of the Country Party (
1922 - 1923). Henry served on the Subiaco Municipal Council from 1929 to 1943). He and Mabel raised three children. Henry died in Perth in 1956 and Mabel in 1975
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