KELAHER, Charles
| Service Numbers: | 1482, 3369, 672 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 August 1914, NSW lancers 12 years 2 year Boer War |
| Last Rank: | Regimental Sergeant Major |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 6 July 1874 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Commercial traveller |
| Died: | Collapsed in George Street, Mayfield East, New South Wales, Australia, Mayfield East, New South Wales, Australia, 21 July 1950, aged 76 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-42. 89. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1482, 3rd Infantry Battalion, NSW lancers 12 years 2 year Boer War | |
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| 4 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3369, 8th Infantry Battalion, NSW lancers 12 years 2 years 9 months Boer War | |
| 3 Sep 1915: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 672, 6th Light Horse Regiment, MU - pyloric ulcer | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3369, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3369, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Adelaide | |
| 25 Jun 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Regimental Sergeant Major, 3369, 8th Infantry Battalion, 3rd MD, MU |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac who served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
73 years ago today, on the Wednesday of the 26th July 1950, Regimental Sergeant Major Charles Richard Kelaher, 8th Battalion (Anzac Police, Reg No-3369), commercial traveler from 368 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria and Margaret Street, Mayfield East, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 76. CATHOLIC 2-42. 89.
Born at Bathurst, New South Wales on the 6th July 1874 to John and Mary Kelaher, also Ellen Amelia Kelaher; husband of Nellie Robotham Kelaher nee ? (married ?, died ?), Charles enlisted on the 27th August 1914 with the 3rd Battalion (Reg No-1482) at Kensington, N.S.W.
Transferred to 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, 17.3.1915, Reg No-672.
Charles returned home on the 17th July 1915, being discharged medically unfit on the 3rd September 1915 with a pyloric ulcer.
Reenlisted on the 4th August 1915 with the 8th Battalion (Reg No-3369) at Melbourne, Victoria.
Unit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia on board HMAT A71 Nestor on the 11th October 1915.
Admitted to hospital 13.11.1915 (not stated), 29.10.1916 (gastritis), 2.2.1917 (ulcer of stomach), 19.4.1917 (inflammation of stomach), 16.1.1918 (gastritis).
Charles returned home again on the 10th May 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 25th June 1918 with nephritis.
Mr. Kelaher’s name has been inscribed on the Bathurst South African War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
The tragic circumstances of Charles’s death were reported, Charles had collapsed in George Street, Mayfield East, N.S.W. (stated name William John Kelaher, also known as Charles Delany).
I have placed poppies at Charles’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 21st July 1950.
Officially commemorated 19.9.1950 or 1951– https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...
Served Boer War.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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