MYERS, Alexander Stuart
| Service Number: | 182 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Tweed Heads, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Publican, Store Keeper |
| Died: | Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, 9 August 1950, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Tweed Heads Lawn Cemetery Plot: R17 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 182, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 182, 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. | |
| 23 Jan 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 182, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier notes invalided due to dysentery returned to Australia aboard Orient arriving Brisbane 16 Jan 1901, discharged 23 Jan 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Alexander Stewart (Stuart) Myers was born around 1874 in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, a son to William and Mary Ann Myers. His mother opend the first hotel in Murwillumbah and at age 21 he became proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel at Tumbulgum, New South Wales. He married Kate Mary Sheils on 30 Jan 1895 in Queensland.
After returning from The South African (Boer) War he conducted a store in Murwillumbah, relocating to the Landsborough area in Queensland with his family in the early 1900s, before retiring to the Tweed Heads area.
(source- extract from Obituary in The Courier Mail, 22 Aug 1950).
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