PARTRIDGE, Edgar George
| Service Number: | 517 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1864 |
| Home Town: | Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk- Dept Health NSW |
| Died: | Manly Hospital- Manly, New South Wales, Australia, 23 December 1933, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Plot: Zone F Salvation Army Section J Grave 890 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 517, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 10 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 517, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB Draft embarked at Pinkenba 10 Mar 1901 aboard Chicago arriving Port Elizabeth 20 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 517, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Edgar George Partridge enlisted in 1901, he was part of a draft of men established to follow, and embarked some four days after, the main 5th QIB contingent to South Africa. The men in the draft were not included in the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives. He is however, included in the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 29, and in newspaper reports.
His details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, where his N.O.K. is recorded as his mother Mrs. S. Partridge, Chandos St, Ashfield, NSW.
Edgar Goerge Partridge was born in 1864 at Sydney, NSW, a son to James Partridge and Sarah Partridge. He married Florence Alice Carlotta Heil in 1903 at Glebe, NSW, and raised 2 children. They lived at Manly and Edgar worked as a Clerk with the Department of Health in the office of the Director General, and at hospitals including Rookwood State Hospital and Liverpool State Hospital where he was working up until he retired in 1929.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 504; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 29).