POWER, Maurice Charles
| Service Number: | 214 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 16 May 1878 |
| Home Town: | South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Licensed Victualler |
| Died: | New South Wales, Australia, 14 March 1948, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 214 | |
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| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 214, 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. | |
| 25 Jun 1901: | Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 214, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 514, notes severely wounded at Joedchoop 25 Jun 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 214, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 notes 6th QIB embarked at Durban 17 May 1902 aboard Devon returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 17 Jun 1902, disbanded 23 Jun 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Maurice Charles Power enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as Mrs F. E. Power, Gladstone Road. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB Bk 2, p. 9, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his mother Mrs F. E. Power, Gladstone Road, South Brisbane.
When he was born on 16 May 1878 in Queensland his name was registered as Charles Maurice Power, a son to John Power and Fanny Emma Power (nee Norris). By 1901, when he enlisted, his christian names had been interchanged. His mother passed in Oct 1909 and when he and his brothers made a claim under her will for land in her estate, as reported in The Telegraph (Birsb), 27 May 1912, he reverted to the name Charles Maurice Power.
He married Ethel Carter on 9 Dec 1903 in Queensland. As noted above, by 1912 he had relocated to New South Wales (Concord, Sydney) where he carried on the occupation of Licensed Victualler in various locations in the state. Its unknown what happened to his first wife but he married for a second time to Isabel Barbara Halbert in 1913 in the district of Hamilton, New South Wales.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 514; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB Bk 2, p. 9; BDM online registers for Qld and NSW; various newspaper articles- see links).
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