BENJAMIN, Herbert Asher
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
Born: | Yass, New South Wales, Australia, 8 April 1867 |
Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Clerk, Accountant |
Died: | Annerley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 24 February 1947, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
Memorials: |
Boer War Service
1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Lieutenant, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lieutenant, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Herbert Asher Benjamin was born on 9 Apr 1868 at Yass, New South Wales, a son to Lewis Benjamin and Deborah Benjamin (nee Hart). He married Priscilla Harriett Smith in 1888 at Newtown, Sydney and they had 2 children. Its unclear when they relocated to Queensland, however, their first child was born in Sept 1895 in Queensland.
At the time of his enlistment in 1901 for the South African (Boer) War it appears he was employed by the Electric Telegraph Department of Queensland. Post the war he worked with the Postmaster-General's Department. Newspaper reports of his death indicate he was also a veteran of WW1 and WW2, however, records of those services don't appear in respective nominal rolls or in records held by the National Archives.