Allan Bell Renton YORSTON

Allan Bell Renton YORSTON Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

YORSTON, Allan Bell Renton

Service Number:	189
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 13 November 1877
Home Town:	South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada, 29 October 1928, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Grenfell Cemetery, Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada Plot: sec. 7 - block 39
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Bugler, 189, Queensland Imperial Bushmen
18 May 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Bugler, 189, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900.
1 Jun 1900:	Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 483 notes promoted to Corporal 1 Jun 1900.
10 Aug 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 189, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 477 notes 4th QIB embarked 5 Jul 1901 aboard Britannic returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 5 Aug 1901, disbanded 10 Aug 1901.

Help us honour Allan Bell Renton Yorston's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Allan Bell Renton Yorston was born in Brisbane on 13 Nov 1877, a son to James Yorston and Rebecca Yorston (nee Chandler). Following the war Allan and his brother ventured to Canada taking up farming and by 1904 had been joined by their parents and remaining siblings. He passed away 29 Oct 1928 at Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada.

(source- AWM Boer War Nomonal Roll, Murray p. 483; Letter from Canada, The Queenslander newspaper, 23 Jul 1904, p. 34; Find A Grave database).

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia