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Private Charles Sharp

Ancestor Details

Acsestor's Name: Charles Octavius Sharp

Ancestor's date of birth: 02/05/1868

Ancestor's date of death: 31/08/1955

Cause of Death: Natural

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Details not provided

Service Number: 107

Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Detail Not Provided

Unit: 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment

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

Murray Page: 451

Contingent: First Queensland

Ship: Cornwall, Date of Sailing: 01/11/1899

Memorial details: Queensland Mounted Infantry Museum Enoggera

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

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: December 1899 - December 1900 in northwest Cape Colony including victory over Boer contingent at Sunnyside (1 January 1900), Free State, and east Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Australia: 17 January 1901 on the Orient.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Rodsney (Rod) Hunt-Sharp, Graceville QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandson

 


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