Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: George Augustus Hartnett
Ancestor's date of birth: 02/02/1866
Ancestor's date of death: 05/09/1958
Cause of Death: Uraemia, advanced arteriosclerosis
Service Number: 190 (QIB), 1755 (ILH)
Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Queensland
Unit: 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen and 2nd Imperial Light Horse
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment in ILH
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service (may have served in South Africa)
Murray Page: 513
Contingent: Sixth Queensland
Ship: Victoria, Date of Sailing: 04/04/1901
Memorial details: Platrand South Africa.
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with TVL, OFS, SA01 and SA02 clasps
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided.
Reasons to go and fight: In October 1898, George Hartnett, a prisoner on remand for embezzlement escaped from the Charters Towers lockup. He was later recaptured. George was an accountant and probably couldn't find work after that so he signed up.
Details of service in war: May 1901 - May 1902 With both the the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen and the 2nd Imperial Light Horse in the Orange Free State and Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Stayed on in South Africa and worked as an accountant. Died in Pretoria. Next of kin was given as his brother William Edward Hartnett because George wasn't married. He had a de facto relationship with Catherine Ann Alice Lee and had eight children, three of whom died as infants. According to family correspondence, George did not think that South Africa was 'a suitable place for (his family) to settle in'. So they stayed in Queensland and he sent them 'plenty of money to live on'.
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