The Queensland Citizen Bushmen, also known as the 3rd Queensland Mounted Infantry, was a mounted infantry regiment raised in

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for service during the

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. Formed as part of the third Queensland contingent with an original strength of 316 men, it departed for South Africa on 2 March 1900 aboard the ''Duke of Portland''. Under the command of Major

Walter Tunbridge Colonel Walter Howard Tunbridge, (2 November 1856 – 11 October 1943) was an Australian soldier and architect. Biography Tunbridge was born in Dover, Kent, to bricklayer John Nicholas Tunbridge and Anne, ''née'' Denne. Educated at Eythorne, h ...

, it initially served in Rhodesia, and later in west Transvaal, where it took part in the Relief of Mafeking, and actions at

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and Elands River. It then served in northern Transvaal, including actions at Rhenoster Kop and Wolwekuil, and the advance on Pietersburg. Fatal casualties included three men killed or died of wounds, and five dead from disease. The unit returned to Australia in June 1901 on the ''Morayshire''.

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