Edward Joseph REGAN

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REGAN, Edward Joseph

Service Number:	314
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Queensland, Australia, 7 August 1882
Home Town:	Roma, Maranoa, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Licensed Victualler, Tobacconist, Haidresser
Died:	Typhoid Fever, Mitchell, Queensland, Australia, 23 February 1916, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Morven Cemetery, Queensland
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 314
4 Apr 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 314, 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.
23 Jun 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 314, 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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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

When Edward Joseph Regan 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. Regan, Roma. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 99, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his mother Mrs. B. Regan, Olive Grove, Roma.

Edward Joseph Regan was born on 7 Aug 1882 in Queensland, a son to John Regan and Bridget Regan (nee Kelly). He married Kate Alice Band on 29 Jul 1908 in Queensland and they had 1 child.

They lived in Bundaberg for a number of years where he held the victuallers' licence for the Globe Hotel and then later entered into business as a tobacconist and hairdresser. In 1915 he disposed of his businesses in Bundaberg and took up the Victuallers' licence for the Commercial Hotel at Morven. It appears that he contracted typhoid fever while running the hotel and passed about 10 days later at the Mitchell hospital.

(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 515; Old State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 99; Local and General: Death of Mr. E. J. Regan- The Bundaberg Mail, 24 Feb 1916, p. 2).

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