Andrew Percy MCPHERSON

Andrew Percy MCPHERSON Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

MCPHERSON, Andrew Percy

Service Number:	351
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Kalbar, Scenic Rim, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 351
27 Mar 1901:	Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sergeant, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 132, notes promoted to Sergeant 27 Mar 1901.
4 Apr 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sergeant, 351, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901.
21 Dec 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Sergeant, 351, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 132, notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Wilcannia arriving Brisbane 15 Dec 1901, discharged 21 Dec 1901.

Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

When Andrew Percy McPherson enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published (under A. P. MacPherson) with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as H. Nielsen, Engelsburg. In the original Nominal Roll for the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, his relationship to the nominated N.O.K. is not recorded.

Engelsburg was established in a large part by German settlers and was renamed Kalbar in 1916 in response to anti-German senitment due to WW1.

(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 516; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 5; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 132).

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia