Private Charles Lamprey

Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: Charles Lewis Lamprey

Ancestor's date of birth: 26/01/1867

Ancestor's date of death: 01/01/1940

Cause of Death: Cardiac Failure

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Fought the Zulu War 1885 and in Egypt 1892.

Service Number: 1140

Colony or State of enlistment: Not Australia, Place of Enlistment: Exeter UK

Unit: 2 Bn The Devonshire Regiment

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: 1885?

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

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

Contingent: Not applicable

Ship: Manila, Date of Sailing: 20/10/1899 (from the UK)

Memorial details: Wagon Hill Memorial, Ladysmith

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Belfast and Natal clasps, King's South Africa Medal with SA 1901 and SA 1902 clasps.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Patriotism.

Details of service in war: Recalled to army service in 1899. Fought at Colenso, Venter's Spruit, Spion Kop, and Vaal Krantz. In the second phase of the war his unit was chiefly employed on garrison duty at stations on the Natal-Pretoria Railway and in the south-east of the Transvaal. For a time they furnished the garrison of Mount Castrol, an isolated fort in an extremely wild district, while some portion of the battalion frequently did trekking with columns or convoys and skirmishing.

Service and life after the Boer War: Transfered to reserve utilites in 1903. No further details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Peter Lamprey, Mt Helena WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

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