Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: George Tanner Noakes
Ancestor's date of birth: 21/12/1879
Ancestor's date of death: 22/03/1950
Cause of Death: Not stated
Service Number: 232
Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Bundaberg
Unit: 4th Qld Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 01/01/19
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.
Murray Page: 484
Contingent: Fourth Queensland
Ship: Manchester Merchant, Date of Sailing: 18/05/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Orange Free State, Transvaal and SA 1901 clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Never spoke of the Boer War but was overheard to say that he regretted not being able to bring the horses home.
Reasons to go and fight: Don't know
Details of service in war: June 1900 - June 1901 in Free State, Transvaal, and battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt and advance on Pietersburg and into east Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia 5 August 1901 on the Britannic. He became a Vet in Bundaberg after the Boer War.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Mrs Gwen Tyson, Springwood QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Grand-daughter.
