Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Charles Stewart Hunter

Ancestor's date of birth: 26/02/1879 Adelaide South Australia

Ancestor's date of death: 04/08/1958

Cause of Death: Bronchial pneumonia

Service Number: 33548

Colony or State of enlistment: Not Applicable, Place of Enlistment: South Africa

Unit: 2^nd Scottish Horse

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 26/11/1901

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): PTE, Date Effective: 06/09/1915

Murray Page: Not applicable did not serve in an Australian unit.

Contingent: Not applicable

Ship: Orient, travelled privately to South Africa

Memorial details: Detail not provided

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps. British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Personal Characteristics: Exemplary conduct. Height 173 cm, weight 69 kg (1915) of ruddy complexion with blue eyes and brown hair.

Reasons to go and fight: Details not provided.

Details of service in war: The first serious skirmish involving 2 SH was at Roodekrantz in Cape Colony, on 30 April 1901. They then operated in the Orange Free Satae and Transvaal. After October 1901 the 2^nd Scottish Horse continued to operate in the Eastern Transvaal. There was often severe fighting, and on 20 December 1901 the commander and another officer were killed at Lake Banagher. In February the regiment made some smart captures of influential Boers about Carolina. It was disbanded after the war ended on 31 May 1902.

Service and life after the Boer War: Worked as a carrier. Joined the AIF 6 September 1915 on and served with the 5^th Pioneer Battalion in France, returned to Australia and was discharged 18 October 1919.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Marilyn Lee Shoobert, Engadine NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: great-granddaughter

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