SANDILANDS, John Graham
| Service Number: | 152 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Tallygaroopna, Victoria, Australia, 1881 |
| Home Town: | Tallygaroopna, Greater Shepparton, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 June 1958, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 152, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles | |
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| 13 Jan 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 152, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, embarked from Melbourne for South Africa on board SS Euryalus | |
| 31 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 152, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private John Graham Sandilands (Service No:152) served in South Africa (Boer War) with 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles, embarking from Melbourne on 13 January 1900 on board SS Euryalus. Private Sandilands' military record in South Africa is documented in the book "Colonel Tom's Boys' (ND6786). Private Sandilands fought under Colonel Tom Price near Rensberg and in the Magaliesberg region near Pretoria, before embarking for Melbourne on 31 March 1901.
Private Sandilands went on to serve in both World Wars - in the Middle East and on the Western Front in WWI (Gunner; Service No:1227) and in the ACMF in WWII (Private; Service No:V5524).
Jack was born at Tallygaroopna via Shepparton, Victoria in 1881, eleventh of eighteen children of Henry George Sandilands (b1837 in Middlesex, England) and Lucy Hicks (b1847 in Bulleen, Victoria). Henry immigrated with his parents and siblings in the early 1840s, and was a Labourer in 1864 when he and Lucy married in Melbourne, where they lived before settling in Tallygaroopna in the late 1880s. Henry was a Farmer at Tallygaroopna near Shepparton.
Jack worked as a Farm Hand on the family farm at Tallgaroopna, and following his return from the Boer War, married Louisa Amelia Schwerkolt (b1890 in Mitcham, Melbourne, Victoria). By 1912 Jack and Louisa were living in Wagin, WA where Jack worked as a Farm Hand before moving to Fremantle in 1914 and then Perth - where he worked as a Labourer and a Fitter. Following service in WWI, Jack and Louisa returned to Victoria, where Jack was a Grocer and Tramways Employee before applying for land under the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act 1916. During the 1920s Jack and Louisa lived at Barwidgee via Myrtleford where Jack was a Dairy Farmer. By 1929 the family had moved to Shepparton where Jack worked as a Labourer, and in the early 1940s Jack and Louisa had settled in Melbourne, where Jack worked as a Labourer. Jack died in 1958 and Louisa in 1966.
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