Veteran Notes/Bio
1st Australian Horse, Trooper No. 1104
Born 15 February 1875 at Bungendore. He was the third eldest of 12 children of William and Maria Martha Winter.
At the time of his enlistment, he was working as a labourer.
An extract from the Goulburn Evening Penny Post in September 1900 published the following extract from a letter sent by Joseph Winter to that tabloid:
”…..J.J.Winter, 1st AH: Klip Pan - very good country, grow anything - been Modder river - under heavy shell, rifle fire - L.Palmer wounded - fought way through Orange Free State and Transvaal to Pretoria - Bungendore boys Haydon and Overend with him; Taylor left Bloemfontein, sick; Masters left sick horse depot, Pretoria - lost only 2 men [Trooper Bonner and Lt..Ebsworth] - 7 wounded - might go England [China too];…”
In January 1901, he was in Pretoria Hospital with fever and came home on the Tongarino, reaching Sydney on 4 May 1901. He arrived in to Bungendore on 8 May.
On 1 June 1901, he was at Government House, Sydney along with many others to receive his Queen’s Medal with six clasps from the Duke of York.
He was appointed to the New South Wales Police Force on 7 April 1902 with Service No. 7905. Joseph married Elizabeth Hall in 1912 and died in 1928 in Redfern.
Joseph’s parents and several of his siblings are buried in the Bungendore Cemetery.
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