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Name: TANNER, Charles Oriel Oliphant (Capt.)
Birth Date: 4.2.1867 Brentford, Middlesex
Death Date: 27.6.1945 Ipswich, Suffold
Profession: Army
Married: In Harrow 23 July 1905 Caroline Marguerite Wood b. 1872, d. 11 Mar 1956 Ipswich, Suffolk
Book Reference: North, Web
War Service: ISC/27th Bombay Inf.
General Information:
North - with Ogaden Expedition Force Baluchis, commanding post at Helishid 23/6/1898. Hand badly injured by crocodile while filling water bottle in River Juba 3/9/1898; Kismayu Nov, Dec 1898; On leave in England Oct 1899.
Web - London Gazette 14/1/1913 - Indian Army - Major to be Lieut.-Colonel - dated 10/11/1912 - Charles Oriel Oliphant Tanner, 127th Queen Mary's Own Baluch Light Infantry