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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.


 

Surname BARNES
Given Name(s) or Initial(s) Charles Albert
Regimental Number
RankLieutenant
Unit Name 4th West Australia Mounted Infantry
StateWA
Extracts and Comments
(from Sources as shown)
Murray: Queen's South Africa medal and 3 clasps (Witte.), at Elands R.
Burridge2: letter from Pretoria 24.3.1901 re WA Nurses.
Source:# 124 Queen's South Africa medal and 4 clasps (Witte. CC Tvl & SA01), WW1 Captain 11Bn AIF Mentioned in Despatches killed in action at Steele's Post in 1915.
URL1: WW1 AIF Captain 11Bn. killed in action 28.4.1915 at Gallipoli, enlisted at Guildford WA, photo.
URL2: Chief Clerk from Guildford WA.
B5165: 2Lt. Guildford Inf. WA.
URL6: left for Eng. 19.7.1901 aboard the 'Lake Erie' on passage home.
URL4: WW1 AIF Captain 11Bn., chief clerk WA Trustee & Executor Agency Coy. Ltd aged 34 in 1914 born in 1880 next of kin mother in Guldford WA, killed in action 25.4.1915 Dardanelles buried at Anzac.
URL8: letters to parents in Guildford WA.
Source References
Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 414 415
Burridge2: Western Austalian Contingents to the South African War pages(s) 46
Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 124
B5165: National Archives of Australia series B5165
MT1486/1: National Archives of Australia series MT1486/1
B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 27.10.1900
External Link URL1awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL2www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/23_28_1/pdf/0172.pdf
External Link URL3www.anzacs.org/index_ab.html#BNames
External Link URL4naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3050415&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL5aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=13831
External Link URL6www.angloboerwar.com/Other/shipping/190107.htm
External Link URL7www.lighthorse.org.au/famous-battles/famous-battles-boer-war/the-siege-of-elands-river-post?searchterm=elands
External Link URL8nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23846466


Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.
 
Colin Roe
Canberra

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