Ancestor Details
Ancestor's Name: Thomas Cumner
Ancestor's date of birth: 01/01/1878
Ancestor's date of death: 20/03/1900
Cause of Death: Enteric Fever.
Service Number: 180
Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Gatton
Unit: 1st QLD Mounted Infantry, A Squadron
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Did not survive the Boer War
Murray Page: 452-541
Contingent: 1st Queensland Contingent
Ship: Cornwall, Date of Sailing: 01/11/1899
Memorial details: Gladstone Cemetery, Kimberley South Africa. Row 5 Grave 38. His name is also inscribed on the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, the Boer War Memorial in Anzac Square Brisbane and Gatton Memorial.
Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Cape Colony clasp.
Personal Characteristics: He was the son of Thomas and Susannah Cumner nee Osbourne.
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided.
Details of service in war: From December 1899 in northwest Cape Colony including victory over rebel band at Sunnyside (1 January 1900). Contracted Enteric Fever (Typhoid) and died in March.
Service and life after the Boer War: Did not survive the Boer War.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Robert Mahoney, Kenmore QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: Nephew
