DUNHAM, Charles Ernest
| Service Number: | 1642 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 49th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 11 July 1894 |
| Home Town: | South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Machinist |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 17 August 1945, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1642, 49th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 1642, 49th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Hawkes Bay embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 20 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 1642, 49th Infantry Battalion, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Charles Ernest Dunham was the son of Thomas John and Eleanor Dunham of south Brisbane, Queensland.
He was very badly wounded during the Australians last attack on Mouquet Farm during early September 1916. He was evacuated to England with a severe shrapnel wound to his right thigh and for a time was listed as seriously ill. He was returned to Australia in October 1916, only weeks after being wounded, and discharged in Brisbane, medically unfit, shrapnel wound to the thigh.
His slightly older brother, Pte. 3147 John Thomas Dunham was killed in action during the same battle and his remains were lost forever.
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