SUTHERS, Herbert
| Service Numbers: | 173, 2267 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Australian Remount Unit |
| Born: | Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 15 January 1877 |
| Home Town: | Gympie, Queensland |
| Schooling: | The One Mile State School, Gympie, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Butcher, Farmer |
| Died: | Coolbie, Queensland, Australia, 24 June 1935, aged 58 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Townsville (Belgian Gardens) Cemetery, Qld Section D2, Row 22, Plot 337 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 173, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 1 Nov 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 173, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 448 notes 1st QMI embarked 1 Nov 1899 aboard Cornwall arriving Cape Town 13 Dec 1899. | |
| 23 Jan 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 173, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 449 notes 1st QMI embarked 13 Dec 1900 returning to Australia aboard Orient arriving Brisbane 17 Jan 1901, disbanded 23 Jan 1901. |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2267, 2nd Australian Remount Unit |
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World War 2 Service
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2267, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT RMS Orontes |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Herbert Suthers served in both the South African (Boer) War and WW1. First service was as a Private S.N. 173, 1st Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War. Second service was as a Private S.N. 2267, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, AIF, WW1. His younger brother Thomas Suthers, also served in the Boer War as a Private S.N. 335, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse.
When he enlisted in 1899 in the 1st QMI and his details were published with the rank and file in The Brisbane Courier, 18 Nov 1899, he was recorded as Private H. Suthers, single, Red Hill (at Gympie). In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 1st QMI, Bk 1 p. 109, it notes he served the full tour of the 1st QMI returning with the contingent aboard the Orient to Brisbane where he was discharged on 23 Jan 1901.
He enlisted again in 1915 for WW1 and on his Attestation Paper, dated 29 Oct 1915, it is noted that; he was born at Gympie and was 39 years 8 months of age, he was married with 4 children and a butcher; his N.O.K. was his wife Jane Suthers, Kandanga; and he had previously served with the 1st Queensland Contingent in South Africa.
Herbert Suthers was born on 15 Feb 1877 at Gympie, a son to Bennett Suthers and Emy Suthers (nee Wise). He married Jane Slaughter on 13 Dec 1905 in Queensland and they had 4 children.
When he passed in 1935 an obituray was published in The Townsville Daily Bulletin, 27 Jun 1935. It records that he had served in the Boer War with the 1st Contingent and following his return had established a butchering business at Mary River Valley (Kandanga). He was still in that business when he enlisted for WW1. A few years after his return from WW1 in 1918, he relocated north taking up a cane farming and grazing property at Coolbie, north of Townsville, where he resided for 15 years prior to his passing.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 451; National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 1st QMI, Bk 1 p. 109; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).
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