HONNER, Charles Forbes
| Service Number: | 66 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Woodforde, South Australia, 13 June 1873 |
| Home Town: | Woodforde, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Schooling: | St Peters College, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Dray proprietor |
| Died: | Ptomaine poisoning, Hebron, South Africa, 24 December 1900, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Hebron Cemetery Hebron, North-West, South Africa |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Boer War Memorial, North Adelaide St Peter's Cathedral Boer War Honour Roll |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 66 | |
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| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 66, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen | |
| 1 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 66, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen, Departed from Port Adelaide on the Troopship "Manhattan". Called at Fremantle enroute and disembarked at Port Elizabeth on 19 June 1900. | |
| 4 Aug 1900: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 66, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen, Elands River | |
| 24 Dec 1900: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Trooper, 66, 4th South Australian Imperial Bushmen, D.O.D. | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Charles Forbes HONNER was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1873
His parents were Alfred HONNER & Elizabeth SWINDLEY
He married Edith Mary Hunter DRUMMOND on 16th April, 1894 at St George, Woodforde, South Australia
Charles died on 24th December, 1900 of poisoning from eating a tin of spoiled meat and is buried in the Hebron Cemetery
His father Alfred put a notice in the newspaper to correct his cause of death that had been reported as enteric fever previously
Biography
In the Honour Roll and Boer War Nominal Roll he is named as Charles Forbes HORNER
South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA: 1839 - 1900) Tuesday 1 May 1900
THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND TROOPERS.
The following is a list, with the regimental numbers, of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and troopers of the South Australian Imperial Contingent:-
66. Trooper Charles Forbes Honner, 27, drag proprietor; married.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54446916
South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA: 1839 - 1900) Saturday 21 April 1900
CONCERNING PEOPLE
Mr. Charles Forbes Honner, son of the Rev. A. Honner, has joined the Imperial Contingent. He is the grandson of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Honner, of the Queen of Portugal's own regiment, and Major of 19th Foot; the nephew of Major-General Sir Robert William Honner, K.C.B., and Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Honner, C.B.; and cousin of Admiral Rowley, and the Baronet of that name, and General Mansion, of Bombay. Since the days of the Conqueror, when Colonel John Honner was Master of the House, there has always been a member of the family in the army. Captain Honner, who has the management of the late Lord Armstrong's gun factory, is a member of the same family, and is now in South Africa.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56553762
The Register (Adelaide, SA: 1901 - 1929) Tuesday 19 November 1901
TROOPER HONNER.
The Rev. Alfred Honner has requested us to make the following statement:— "Tpr. C. F. Honner, of the first Imperial Bushmen's contingent, is often reported to have died at Heilbron of enteric fever. The medical certificate of the post-mortem, which was held immediately after his death, states that he died at Hebron, of ptomaine poisoning, from eating the contents of a defective tin of meat."
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55670810
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