Samuel Frazer (1865 - 1905)

Born 1865 in Wooragee, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Died 1905 at about age 40 in South Africa

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Biography

Samuel Arthur Frazier was born at Wooragee 1865, mother Lydia Robley BARNES, father John^[1].

Samuel Frazer is an Anzac who served in the Boer War.

Corporal Samuel Frazer, miner at Melbourne, joined the 4th Victorian Imperial Bushmen/Australian Imperial Regiment (A.I.R.) (regimental number 1) and sailed from Port Melbourne on the "Victorian" on 1 May 1900 for South Africa.^[2][3] He was invalided to Australia, ariving In Melbourne in May 1901.^[4]

Sergeant Samuel Frazer, mine manager, joined the 5th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse (Regimental number 137) in Camden New South Wales, 21st April 1902.^[5][6]

Possibly died of Illness, Durban, South Africa, 7 January 1905, aged 39 years.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth: Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages Register 767/1865
2. ↑ https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1448491
3. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9539784
4. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198086005
5. ↑ NAA: B4418, FRAZER S https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=681639
6. ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198086005
7. ↑ https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/783497