George Herman Warner

Born: 1881 (approx)
Died: 30th August 1943

With the inclusion of his discharge papers among the family papers, I (Amanda) looked into George's military background and found that during the Boer War, between 1899 and 1902, he was a member of the Royal Fusiliers. Having written to The City of London Headquarters for the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, I received some information of interest. It would appear the George received the Queen's South Africa Medal with five clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, and South Africa 1902.

As far as I can tell, the Fusiliers started in Gibraltar in August 1899. Having been there for four months or so, the War Office sent a telegram in January 1900 to announce the formation of the Fourth Battalion of Fusiliers, which was to become the battalion that George was assigned to.

Having been posted to Gibraltar, the company of the 3rd Fusiliers were ordered return to England to commence the official formation of the new battalion, which by and large consisted of soldiers from the 3rd battalion. It wasn't actually until March 1901 that the 4th Battalion left England again for South Africa. Unfortunately, George can't have spent a great deal of time in South Africa. According to his discharge papers he was discharged on 21st September 1902 for being medically unfit. However, he did manage to receive a gunshot wound to his left leg in July 1901.

After this, the information about George become rather sketchy again. I know that at some stage he married and had a son, George Ernest Warner. Finally he then married Hannah Elizabeth Warner nee Brown nee Hammond, and while being employed as a window washer, apparently died falling from a ladder.