Ancestor Details
Descendant Details
Name of Ancestor: Herbert William Cornell
Ancestor's date of birth: 07/08/1885
Ancestor's date of death: 01/01/1935
Cause of Death: Lung disease due to Gas Attack in WW1
Service Number: 5412 (in Boer War)
Colony or State of enlistment: Not Applicable, Place of Enlistment: Aldershot UK
Unit: The Wiltshire Regiment
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 07/09/1899
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): SGT, Date Effective: 1915
Murray Page: Not applicable did not serve in an Australian unit
Contingent: Not applicable
Ship: Gascon, Date of Sailing: 16/12/1899 (From UK)
Memorial details: Buried in Perth, WA
Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free Satae, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902 clasps; British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Boy soldier in the British Army.
Details of service in war: Took part in operations at Colesberg, Orange River, Bloemfontein to Pretoria, then in Cape Colony until he returned to Aldershot May 1903.
Service and life after the Boer War: Served in the British Regular Army until 1912, then with the Territorials. Returning to the regulars with the rank of Sergeant, he saw operational service in France and Belgium 1916-1918. Discharged on 19 June 1925, he migrated with his family to Western Australia and took up farming. Unfortunately due to WWI gas injuries he died in Perth in 1935 when I was two years of age.
Name of Descendant: Charles Joseph Cornell, Narrandera NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Youngest son
