MARKWELL, Edmondstone
| Service Number: | 160 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 27 December 1863 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Auctioneer and Commission Agent (Qld); Railways Purchasing Manager (South Africa) |
| Died: | Heart Failure, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 November 1903, aged 39 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Brisbane Grammar School Boer War Honour Board |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 160, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 160, 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, 160, 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
Edmonstone 'Ted' Markwell was born 27 Dec 1863 in Queensland, Australia, a son to William John Markwell and Georgina Markwell (nee Edmonstone). He married Anna Elizabeth Taylor in Brisbane on 30 Jul 1889 and they had three children.
He was a prominent athlete and cyclist and operated in a Auctioneer and Commission Agent business in Queens St, Brisbane prior to serving in South Africa. After returning home from the war he would return to South Africa to take up a prominent position with the South African Railways Dept, his wife and children remaining in Brisbane. His health deteriorated and he suffered heart failure on 27 Nov 1903 while still in South Africa.
(source- Obituraies in The Telegraph (Brisbane) 30 Dec 1903 and The Brisbane Courier 29 Dec 1903).
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