GOEBEL, Charles John
| Service Number: | 135 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Fourth (Imperial) Bushman Contingent, Victoria |
| Born: | Pleasant Creek, Victoria, Australia, 17 June 1873 |
| Home Town: | Warracknabeal, Yarriambiack, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Zuurfontein Farm, Zuilfontein, South Africa, 27 April 1901, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Warracknabeal & District Boer War Honour Roll, Warracknabeal Anglican Church Corporal Charles Goebel Memorial Tablet |
Boer War Service
| 1 May 1900: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 135, 4th Imperial Bushmen, Transport ship "Victorian" from Melbourne | |
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| 23 May 1900: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 135, Fourth (Imperial) Bushman Contingent, Victoria, Disembarked at Beira in Portuguese Mozambique to entrain to Rhodesia. | |
| 27 Apr 1901: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 135, Fourth (Imperial) Bushman Contingent, Victoria | |
| 27 Apr 1901: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Lance Corporal, 135, Fourth (Imperial) Bushman Contingent, Victoria, KIA. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Charles John GOEBEL was born in 1873 in Pleasant Creek, Victoria
His parents were George Hugo Carl Robert GOEBEL from Germany and Susan Mary DE FAYE from Jersey
He joined the 4th Imperial Contingent in Victoria as a private and was later promoted to Lance Corporal - he departed Melbourne on 1st May, 1900 in the Transport ship 'Victorian'
Charles was killed in action on 27th April, 1901 in Zuilfontein, South Africa - his burial place is unknown
His name is memorialised on the Ballarat Boer War memorial and the Memorial in the Anglican Church, Warracknabeal.
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A very impressive service was conducted at Christ Church, Warracknabeal this afternoon, 12.2.1902, the occasion being the unveiling of a tablet to the memory of the late Corporal C J GOEBEL, killed in action at Goetzeeberg, South Africa, which has been erected by his comrades in the Warracknabeal section of the Victorian Rangers.
Biography contributed by Maurice Kissane
TPR Ernest Charles Nicholson [207] 4VIB sent a letter to his local newspaper which describes the 1901 action in which Charles was killed.
He includes his field burial location.
His body was tied to a horse and buried on an English Farm in a river valley.
Ernest reports that the field burial site is six miles from where their section encounted sixty Boers in a fierce fire fight.
It is dated June 1st, 1901. The Narracan Shire Advocate published Ernest's letter on Sat July 6th, 1901 as per the attached Trove Newspapers link.
It is on page 3 under 'On Active Service' article heading.
The page 391 footnote [970] in "That Ragged Mob" suggests that the distance they travelled is a lot more than six miles, closer to fifteen. The dead were buried near Mayford on Stretch's farm according to cited [970] footnote.
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