WYLIE, Allan Malcolm
| Service Number: | 43 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1 March 1882 |
| Home Town: | Eudlo, Sunshine Coast, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Accidental resulting from a fight, Stannary Hills- Irvinebank, Queensland, Australia, 10 November 1909, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Stannary Hills Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 43, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 4 Mar 1901: | Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 1 p. 178, notes appointed Acting Corporal 4 Mar 1901. | |
| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 43, 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, Corporal, 43, 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 Allan Malcolm Wylie enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1902, he noted his N.O.K. as his father J. M. Wylie, Eudlo, North Coast Line (Sunshine Coast). In the original nominal roll for the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, his N.O.K. is recorded as his father James M. Wylie, Euldo, N. C. Line.
His older brother James Wylie S.N. 42 also served in the same 5th QIB contingent.
He commonly went by the name Allan Wylie.
Allan Malcolm Wylie was born on 1 Mar 1882 at Brisbane, a son to James Malcolm Wylie and Isabella Wylie (nee Wallace). He married Jane Teresa Dossetto at Red Cap, a now abandoned mining town near Chillagoe, on 12 Nov 1906. They had 1 child while living at Red Cap and then Stannary Hills, near Irvinebank, which were mining towns in the day noted to be tough living. This was evident in an article on his death published in The Brisbane Courier in 1909 as transcribed below.
A Stannary Hills Fatality The Brisbane Courier, 13 Nov 1909, p. 4.
Yesterday the Commissioner of Police received a telegram from the Cairns police, stating that Constable Mullins, of Stannary Hills, has wired that two men named Allan Wylie and John Smith quarrelled while drunk, on November 7. Blows were exchanged, and the men fell a few times during the course of the fight. Smith on one occasion, falling on Wylie. The latter was apparently hurt, and shortly afterwards complained of being ill. He was removed to the local hospital, and died there on Thursday. Smith has been arrested on a charge of unlawfully killing.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 494; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll of 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 2; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 1 p. 178).
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