MCJANNETT, William Vincent
| Service Numbers: | 1084, 146 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 January 1902, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW; nok father Mr J. J. McJannett of Bungendore, NSW; previous military service of one year and 9 days. |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia, 1879 |
| Home Town: | Bungendore, Palerang, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway worker |
| Memorials: | Bungendore & District Boer War Memorial, Bungendore Boer War Roll of Honour |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 1084, 1st Australian Horse | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 146, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse | |
| 13 Jan 1902: | Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, 146, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW; nok father Mr J. J. McJannett of Bungendore, NSW; previous military service of one year and 9 days. | |
| 18 Feb 1902: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, 146, 1st Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, Embarked with ‘B’ Company, 1st Australian Commonwealth Horse for service in South Africa. Pay: five shillings per day. |
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Family
William Vincent (Vince) McJannett was ninth-born of 15 children to the Bungendore family of John Joseph and Jane Mary Hassett. He was a railway worker at Bungendore.
Boer War Service
William Vincent McJannett served twice in the Boer War - firstly as Trooper 1084 with a New South Wales colonial unit, the First Australian Horse in which during 1900 he served in South Africa and returned to Australia aboard ‘Orient’.
Trooper 146 William Vincent McJannett enlisted again on 13 January 1902 and on 18 February 1902 embarked for South Africa with B Company, 1st Australian Commonwealth Horse; his pay was five shillings a day.
Homecoming
In January 1901 on return to Bungendore after his first term of Boer War Service, he received a welcome from the townsfolk at Bungendore Railway Station. Railway staff had decorated the railway station with flags for the occasion. Local leaders gave addresses of welcome for the homecoming. A telegram from absent comrades was read. Hearty cheers for the returned soldier and his parents were then given.