R. W. Hornabrook

John Hornabrook, owner of the York Hotel, at the corner of Pulteney and Rundle streets, Adelaide was a grandfather.

[3] A year later he was in the South African Republic performing similar work, where it was feared the disease was being brought in by Indian workers.

Later that year he joined the Imperial troops in South Africa as a medical officer, and was credited with several displays of bravery[4] and was wounded under fire,[5] before being laid low with sunstroke and enteric fever during the Siege of Ladysmith.

Hornabrook returned to Adelaide briefly in March 1901[6] before proceeding to Melbourne, where he was an invited guest at the Public Schools Old Boys' reunion.

[9] In February 1904 he was called to the Celtic Queen, from Acapulco, anchored off Wallaroo, three of whose crew had died, and most of the rest laid low by fever.

Hornabrook, his wife and small family moved to Victoria in early 1909, settling at Lansdowne Road, East St Kilda.

[12] HMAS Australia was involved with the AN&MEF, which captured German New Guinea, then joined the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet as flagship of the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron, patrolling the North Sea, but saw little action.

Hornabrook resigned his commission on 7 August 1915 and enlisted with the Australian Army and sailed for England with the First AIF aboard the liner, later troopship, SS Medic.