Summary heading
Camp and ordinary pay sheets for
Queensland Contingents despatched to the South African (Boer) War.
Function and purpose
This series consists of weekly rolls
of pay for officers, NCO’s and men of the Queensland Contingents despatched to
the South African (Boer) War. Payments are within Queensland only.
The payroll booklets were being used
as a receipt book by virtue of each man signing for his pay including officers.
The booklets in the series date from
1899 - 1901.
Physical characteristics
This series contains 28 linen-bound
booklets. Each booklet has a label to define what is in each booklet including
the pay period covered, ranks and book number within the rank grouping.
Many of the booklets are duplicates.
This duplication is required by instruction printed inside each front cover.
The number of folios in each booklet
vary from booklet to booklet but many contain 11 folios which includes the inside
cover. The folios are printed to a set format, all but two having 14 columns.
Those with the 14 columns are Queensland Defence Force., form No C57 authorised
1 July 1897. The columns have not been used strictly in accordance with the
printed headings, however, generally they inform Number, Rank, Name, Period,
Number of days, Rate, Pay, Amount due and Signature.
The first two booklets in the series
have no signatures for amounts received, a regular pattern not being
established until the booklets of the 6th Contingent.
On the front cover of all booklets
relating to payments to the 6th Contingent there is a green crayoned
number. This is the voucher number that will have an entry listing the
expenditure contained in that booklet. These vouchers are accessioned as CRS
A6591.
System of arrangement and control
Control symbols 1 - 28.
The series is arranged by
Contingents and encampments and then by book number within rank and
chronological groupings.
Relationships with other records
A6591 - Claims for payment vouchers
on the South Africa Contingents of the Queensland Defence Force,1900-1901
- relates to A6590 as the blue crayoned
numbers in A6590 refer directly to the vouchers in A6591.
Immediate source of acquisition
The records were transferred into
archival custody from the Central Office of the Department of Defence in 1958.