SATCHWELL, Albert Edwin
| Service Number: | 9 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Camperdown, Corangamite, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
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Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Sergeant, 9, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Sandra McLeod Martin
Sergeant Saddler Albert Satchwell
A photo of my great uncle Sergeant Saddler/ horse breaker Albert Satchwell. Victorian Mounted Regiment.
He wrote a serial home to the Camperdown Chronicle Victoria and a book was made of it. Sergeant Saddler Satchwell A Soldiers Story.
The Boer War. His interviews on Trove were more confronting as the serial was read by all.
On Trove he retold an incident when they were retreating at full gallop and the Boers were aiming as they did at the horses and were good shots. A mate in front of hims horse came down. He picked the mate up at full gallop onto the back of his saddle. He heard a thump and his mate fell off. Albert thought his mate had been shot in the back and was delighted when the man walked in having been stunned by the fall but the bullet deflected by his pack.
His book got me researching the Boer War.
He came back on a hospital ship with enteric fever and never really recovered. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/28676212
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