WOOTTON, Charles Edmund
| Service Number: | 466 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | West Ham, Essex, England, United Kingdom, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 9 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Grave G. 16. INSCRIPTION A NOBLE AND DEVOTED SON TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE , Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 466, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ajana embarkation_ship_number: A31 public_note: '' | |
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| 19 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 466, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Ajana, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 26 and a son of Charles Philip and Clara Wootton, of The Hollies, 19, Empress Avenue, Ilford, Essex, England. His brother also fell- Gunner Alfred Phillip Wootton who served with the Australian Field Artillery.
The brothers are remembered on the St Clement's Church Memorial Panels which commemorate 285 ‘men of the parish of Great Ilford’ who died in the First World War.
In 1916, as casualties among parishioners mounted, the church council agreed to a permanent commemoration to honour those who had lost their lives. Following the Second World War, the congregation of St. Clement’s dwindled and it proved financially untenable to maintain the building in Park Avenue. In 1977, the church moved to Cecil Hall in Granville Road, less than a hundred metres away, and the old St. Clement’s Church was demolished to make way for an apartment block. The memorial oak panels were re-erected in Cecil Hall and many of the windows (including those commemorating the dead of the First World War) were removed from the old church and superimposed on windows in the new church.
In 2002, St. Clement’s closed and the memorial panels were moved into temporary storage under the care of the Essex Branch of the Western Front Association. Three years later, the six upper-panel components were re-erected in one of the corridors at Redbridge Town Hall. The size of the memorial did not permit the lower section to be installed and so, apart from one central panel, the remaining five lower panel components (which were) were disposed of by permission of the Church.
The central panel, which was retained, bore an inscription which referred to the memorial windows at St. Clement’s church. As it would not have made sense to include it alongside the roll of honour, the plaque was subsequently donated to Redbridge Museum. This plaque is now all that remains of the original window memorial.
Births Jun 1889
Wootton
Charles Edmund
W. Ham
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INSCRIPTION on his wargrave chosen by his parents
A NOBLE AND DEVOTED SON TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE