Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Charles Gustav Tollner

Ancestor's date of birth: 08/02/1882

Ancestor's date of death: 08/08/1950

Cause of Death: Pneumonia

Service Number: 429

Colony or State of enlistment: SA, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided

Unit: 5^th South Australian Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: Not known

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No record of post Boer War service

Murray Page: 368

Contingent: Fifth South Australian

Ship: Ormazon, Date of Sailing: 09/02/1901

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: May 1901 - March 1902 under in Free State including defence of Graspan (6 June 1901) and charge at Grootvlei (2 August 1901).

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 27 April 1902 on the Manchester Merchant. No further details of his life provided.

Name of Descendant: Sharryn Penney, Mount Gambier SA
Relationship to Ancestor: Great grand father

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