HARTNETT, George Augustus
| Service Number: | 190 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | 2 February 1866, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Charters Towers, Charters Towers, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Died: | Pretoria, South Africa, 5 September 1958, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Charters Towers Boer War Memorial Kiosk |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 190 | |
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| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 190, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901. | |
| 16 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 190, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, p. 194, notes discharged in South Africa 16 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When George Augustus Hartnett enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as William E. Hartnett, Q. M. Sergeant R.R.A.A., Victoria Barracks, Sydney. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, p. 194, it is noted part of his pay was directed to a joint account held with Mrs. C. A. A. Hartnett, Charters Towers.
His birth and death dates are taken from his profile biography on the Australian Boer War Memorial database submitted by a family relative. In the bio it is noted that he was in a defacto relationship with a Catherine Ann Alice Lee in Charters Towers (the Mrs. C. A. A. Hartnett noted in the Boer War Service Paybooks) and they had 8 children.
He had been in trouble with the law, charged with embezellment, in Charters Towers before he enlisted in the Boer War. After completing his Boer War tour he was discharged in, and remained in, South Africa where he died 1958. Its unclear whether his wife joined him in South Africa and then returned to Australia where she died in Brisbane in 1927.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 513; Qld State Archives- Boer war Service Paybooks 6th QIB, p. 194; Australian Boer War Memorial database bio).
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