ROXBURGH, M
| Service Number: | 532 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 December 1901, Enrolled in South Africa after arrival of 5th QIB. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Williamstown (Vic), Hobsons Bay, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Surrey Hills, Melbourne - Victoria, Australia, 15 July 1958, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Williamstown (General) Cemetery, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 532, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 1 Dec 1901: | Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 532, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Enrolled in South Africa after arrival of 5th QIB. | |
| 1 Dec 1901: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 532, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 504 notes enrolled in South Africa. Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 144, notes his pay commenced from 6 Dec 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 532, 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 (Roxburgh disembarked in Melbourne), disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Note- the AWM Boer War Nominal Roll compiled by Murray records him as M. Roxburgh while the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 5th QIB record him as M. F. Roxburgh. His full name was Malcolm Wicking Frazier Roxburgh.
Murray, in his compilation of the AWM Boer War Nominal Roll on p. 504 to 505, notes members of the 5th QIB who enrolled/enlisted in South Africa.
M. Roxburgh enrolled in South Africa with the 5th QIB and as such was not recorded on the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent held by National Archives. He was however, recorded in the Boer War Service Paybooks of the 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 144, where it is noted his pay commenced from 6 Dec 1901, well after the 5th QIB had arrived on 1 Apr 1901. Its assumed he enrolled about 1 Dec 1901.
The paybooks note his contact details as Post Office, Seymour, Victoria. Following his discharge the paybooks contain an instruction that his medals were to be sent to M. F. Roxburgh, 42 Pasco St, Williamstown. This was the address of his parents and when his father passed in 1904 his death notice in local newspapers noted he was still living at that address when he passed. He returned to Australia aboard St Andrew with the 5th QIB, disembarking in Melbourne, with discharge from 5 May 1902 when the unit was disbanded in Brisbane.
Malcolm Wicking Frazier Roxburgh was born in 1882 at Williamstown, Victoria, a son to William James Frazier-Roxburgh (a Crimean War Veteran) and Matilda Frazier-Roxburgh (nee Wicking). He married Elsie May Keay in Victoria in 1904 and they had 4 children.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 505; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 5th Queensland (Imperial Bushmen) Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 4 p. 144).