James Madill, farmer of Tuakau, enlisted with the 6th New Zealand Mounted Rifles on 15th January 19012 and embarked aboard the Cornwall on 30th January. He returned to New Zealand via Australia on the Cornwall and Monowai, and was discharged having completed 1 year 27 days' service. d.24.6.1959, Auckland). Occupation: Farmer; next of He was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, SA1, SA2. He died in Auckland in 1959.

See: Carvings from the Veldt, Part Two- Rifle Carvings from the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by Dave C George, pp 42-43