PHILP, Ernest Alfred
| Service Number: | 2439 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Canada, July 1950, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Echuca Boer War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Driver, 2439, 3rd New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
MOAMA BOER WAR
VETERAN
DIES IN CANADA
Few of the original contingent of Echuca-Moama men who left here 50 years ago in the Boer War Contingent still survive. The report of the passing of one who has been long resident in Canada, was announced this week in the death of Mr Ernest Albert Philp. Born 70 years ago he was the third son of the late Mr and Mrs Richard Pliilp of Tataila, where he spent his early life. He was 21 years of age when the call for volunteers for the South Afrifcan War was made, and he left Moama with the N.S.W. Contingent. After serving for 18 months in that campaign, he was invalided home with enteric fever.
At the close of the war he re turned to South Africa but after about five years there he migrated to Canada in 1906. He took up land in the State of Saskatchewan and has remained there ever since except for a short visit to his homeland in 1909, with his wife and young son. On his return he engaged in building and farming in Estevan, Saskatchewan, the Dominion's leading wheat State. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn their loss, while several of his brothers and sisters survive him. These are William (Geelong), Charles (Echuca), Maria (Mrs R. Berryman, Tataila), Rosie (Mrs J. Brook, Mathoura).