William De Passey (1859-1942)

An extract from the full biography of De Passey is published in the Issue 146, September 2011 edition of Soldiers of the Queen, the journal of the Victorian Military Society, De Passey began an interesting and at times, controversial military career in the British Army. With active service in the Zulu War in 1879, in the Boer War with the South Australians and Commonwealth forces and in WWI, De Passey provides a fascinating insight into a period of pomp and circumstance and war and peace in the years of the late Victorian era and early Australian federation.