Otto Frederick Schumann (1865 - 1901)

Born 1865 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Melina Murray (Drayton) Seeley — married 29 Oct 1892 (to 6 May 1901) in Baptist Church Adelaide, South Australia

Died 6 May 1901 at about age 36 in Venterspruit, Orange River, South Africa

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Biography

Quartermaster-Sergeant Otto Schumann died during military service during the Second Boer War.

Otto was born in 1865. He was the son of Otto Schumann and Jane McTurk. Otto served in the Australian Army in the Boer War. His rank was Quartermaster-Sergeant in the 5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen.^[1] Otto was killed in action on the 6th of May 1901 by a sniper while in Venterspruit, South Africa. He had been searching for a lost mule while unarmed at the time of his death.^{[2] [3]}

Notes

Otto’s name can be seen on the South African War Memorial on the corner of King William Street and North Terrace at the main entrance to Government House in Adelaide.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1437384?image=1
2. ↑ http://members.pcug.org.au/~croe/ozb/oz_boer_more.cgi?record=18806
3. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Bonnie Coventry.

• Otto Frederick Schumann (Virtual War Memorial Australia, https://vwma.org.au : accessed 25 Apr 2024)