WILSON, James Carrie
| Service Number: | 376 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Company Sergeant Major |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom, 30 March 1877 |
| Home Town: | Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | South Africa, 1957, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 376, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 16 Mar 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 154, notes promoted to Corporal on 16 Mar 1901. | |
| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 376, 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 | |
| 18 Oct 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Sergeant Major, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 517, notes promoted to Company Sergeant-Major on 18 Oct 1901. | |
| 16 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Company Sergeant Major, 376, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 154, notes discharged in South Africa on 16 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When James Carrie Wilson 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 John Wilson, Holden St, Ashfield, Sydney. In the original nominal roll for the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, his N.O.K. is recorded as his father.
James Carrie Wilson was born on 30 Mar 1877 at Dundee, Scotland, a son to John Wilson and Agnes Wilson (nee Carrie). The Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 154, notes he was discharged in South Africa on 16 May 1902, its assumed to take up employment there. It appears he remained in South Africa passing there in about 1957.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 517; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service i South Africa, p. 5; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 154).
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