SILVERTON, Charles
| Service Number: | 115 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Cambois, Northumberland, England, August 1888 |
| Home Town: | Broadmeadows, Clarence Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Steelworker |
| Died: | Broadmeadow, New South Wales, Australia, 12 February 1957, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-198. 49. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 115, 9th Machine Gun Company | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 115, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 115, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 23 Jul 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 115, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd MD and with wife |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
67 years ago today, on the 20th February 1957, Sergeant Charles Silverton, 5th Australian Machine Gun Battalion (Reg No-115), steelworker from Alwynton, Lambton Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 68. ANGLICAN 3-198. 49.
Born at Cambois, Northumberland, England about 1889 to John and Jane Silverton of 5 Boca Chica, Cambois, Northumberland, England; husband of Anne Wakefield Silverton nee Fraser (married 17.4.1918, Blythe, England, died 5.3.1955, Adamstown, N.S.W., age 63), Charles enlisted on the 28th January 1916 with the 9th Australian Machine Gun Company at Casula, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 12th May 1916.
Wounded in action - 31.1.1917 (GSW back, severe).
Invalided to England 9.2.1917.
Granted leave to England from 31.3.1919 to 30.9.1919 (shipbuilding).
Commenced return to Australia 31.3.1920.
Charles arrived home on the 23rd May 1920 with wife Anne, being discharged on the 23rd July 1920.
Mr. Silverton’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial and the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor.
I will place poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Charles’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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