WAUGH, Donald
| Service Number: | 220 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Company Sergeant Major |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | England, United Kingdom, 29 November 1875 |
| Home Town: | Cairns, Cairns, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sawmilling |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 4 December 1940, aged 65 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 220 | |
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| 10 Mar 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Sergeant Major, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 14, notes promoted to Company Sergeant Major 10 Mar 1901. | |
| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Sergeant Major, 220, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Sergeant Major, 220, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 notes 6th QIB embarked at Durban 17 May 1902 aboard Devon returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 17 Jun 1902, disbanded 23 Jun 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Also served in WW1, Lieutenant 4th Infantry Battalion AIF.
When Donald Waugh enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as R. Waugh J.P., Cairns assumed to be his father Robert.
Donald Waugh was born on 29 Nov 1875 in England, a son to Robert Waugh and Emma Waugh. He married Sarah Eliza Owens on 4 Dec 1906 in Queensland and they had 5 children. Tragically their first born drowned in a watercourse near Innisfail in 1912. He worked in blacksmithing and sawmilling in the Innisfail district.
When he enlisted in 1915 for WW1 he noted in his Application for a Commission that; he was born 29 Nov 1875 and educated in the Public Schools England; was married to Sarah Eliza Waugh; was working in sawmilling and living in Innisfail; and had previously served with the Royal Welsh Fusileers in India and the 6th QIB in the Boer War.
After discharge from WW1 service he took up the position of a District Magistrate in Papua New Guinea (New Ireland and Rabaul). Following a long stint in PNG he retired to Sydney, NSW, where he passed in 1940 and his wife passed in 1966.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 514; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 14; National Archives Australia- WW1 service records; Obituary- Johnstone River Advocate, 11 Dec 1940, p. 6; various newspaper articles- see links).
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