NOAKES, George Tanner
Service Number: | 232 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
Born: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 21 December 1879 |
Home Town: | Bundaberg, Bundaberg, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Veternarian |
Died: | Queensland, Australia, 22 March 1950, aged 70 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Bundaberg General Cemetery, Queensland Plot: General - Section - D5 Grave No: P763 |
Memorials: |
Boer War Service
1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 232, Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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18 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 232, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900. | |
10 Aug 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 232, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 477 notes 4th QIB embarked 5 Jul 1901 aboard Britannic returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 5 Aug 1901, disbanded 10 Aug 1901. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
George Tanner Noakes was born on 21 Dec 1879 at Bundaberg, Queensland, a son to George Noakes and Margaret Noakes (nee Clark). He married Martha Margaret Workman on 19 Mar 1906 in Queensland and she passed away in 1919. He then remarried to Bessie Evelyn Trevor on 22 Dec 1920 in Queensland. He had seven children, four with his first wife.
He lived in Bundaberg and worked as a Veterinary Surgeon serving the Bundaberg region.
(sources- Australian Boer War Memorial Database Bio; Obituray, The Nambour Chronicle).