SMITH, Charles Christopher
| Service Number: | 330 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 7 June 1874 |
| Home Town: | Mount Morgan, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia, 8 November 1915, aged 41 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Morgan Cemetery Plot: Sec 4 Row C4 Grave 50 Tablet W41. |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 330 | |
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| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 330, 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, 330, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 112, notes discharged in South Africa on 16 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Charles Christopher Smith 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 J. E. Smith, Cawarral. In the original Nominal Roll for the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent, held by National Archives, it is noted his N.O.K. was his father J. E. Smith, Cawarral near Rockhampton.
Charles Christopher Smith was born on 7 Jun 1874 at Rockhampton, a son to James Ernest Smith and Susannah Smith (nee Hetherington). He married Catherine Mary O'Keeffe on 1 Mar 1905 at Mount Morgan.
He was discharged from his Boer war service in South Africa in May 1902, it is assumed to take up employment there. He made his way back to Mount Morgan by 1905 where he married Catherine on 1 Mar 1905. A newspaper report in The Morning Bulletin, 25 Mar 1905, reporting on on resident activity in the Rockhampton district on 18 Mar 1905, indicates they had made their way to Sydney to embark for Johannesburg, South Africa.
Its reported that they lived there for a number of years, where he worked as a miner, before returning to Mount Morgan a few years prior to his passing in 1915. His death notice in The Morning Bulletin was accompanied with a request for South African papers to copy.
(source-AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 516; National Archives Australia- B 5172 Nominal Roll for the 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen Contingent Queensland Defence Force for service in South Africa, p. 5; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 112).
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