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Private Charles Kokkinn

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Charles Harold Kokkinn

Ancestor's date of birth: 23/08/1881

Ancestor's date of death: 1958

Cause of Death: Lung cancer

Service Number: 120

Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Brisbane

Unit: 5th Contingent Queensland Imperial Bushmen

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 06/03/1901

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

Murray Page: 496

Contingent: Fifth Queensland

Ship: Templemore, Date of Sailing: 07/03/1901

Memorial details: Detail not provided.

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

Personal Characteristics: Quiet, unassuming, well-read, erudite

Reasons to go and fight: Wanderlust and problems with stepmother

Details of service in war: April 1900 - March 1902 in east Transvaal, Free State including defeat at Mokari Drift (27 September 1901), and Natal border campaign including stand at Onverwacht (4 January 1902) where 13 died and 17 wounded.

Service and life after the Boer War: Settled in Kimberley South Africa and worked as a steward on the dining cars of the South African Railways on the Braamfontein Union run.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Michael John Kokkinn, Adelaide SA
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

 


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