SAVILL, George Daniel
| Service Number: | 223 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Lismore, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Yanderra, New South Wales, Australia, 13 June 1953, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Cremated. |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 223, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 223, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 223, 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 arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When George Daniel Savill enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his father W. M. Savill, Byron Bay, NSW. His brother, Frederick Herbert Savill S.N. 220, had also enlisted in the 5th QIB.
In an article in Table Talk (Melb), 22 May 1902, p. 6, under the title of Personal, it was reported that his was one two families in Lismore to send 4 to 5 sons to the Boer War. It notes the other brothers as William and Alfred (who remained in South Africa). William Walter Saville (b. 1868) S.N. 164 1st Qld Mounted Infantry and Alfred Edward Saville (b. 1871) S.N. 734 NSW Lancers.
George Daniel Savill (BDM NSW register shows Saville) was born in 1874 in Lismore, NSW, a son to William Savill and Mary Ann Savill (nee French). He married Ada H. P. Lee in 1905 at Lismore, NSW.
He was a farmer for many years (eggs and bees) in the Murwillumbah and Byron areas. His father passed in 1933 in Queensland and a newspaper article in Oct 1934 noted he made a claim on his father's estate for land transfer while he was residing at Enmore, Sydney. When he passed in 1953 his death notice in The Sydney Morning Herald noted he was late of Yanderra, a village about 70km from Sydney.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 498; various newspaper articles- see links).
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