Charles Neave HOUGH

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Service Number:	8076
Enlisted:	21 July 1917, Enlisted at Cairns, QLD
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Birmingham, England, 5 June 1881
Home Town:	Cairns, Cairns, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Queensland, Australia, 16 September 1948, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane, Qld ANZAC, Plot 7, Row 81, Grave 64. Headstone inscription reads: We will remember them. Lest we forget
Memorials:	Kuranda State School

21 Jul 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 8076, Tunnelling Companies, Enlisted at Cairns, QLD
13 Sep 1917:	Promoted Sapper, Tunnelling Companies
26 Nov 1917:	Involvement Sapper, 8076, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Indarra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
26 Nov 1917:	Embarked Sapper, 8076, Tunnelling Companies, SS Indarra, Melbourne
24 Mar 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), In France
13 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 8076, 2nd Tunnelling Company (inc. 5th Tunnelling Company), Discharged at the 1st Military District

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Son of William Hough of Birmingham, England

Next of kin given as a friend Charles Gurd of 'Oaklands', Cairns, QLD

On 4 January 1919 Charles married Martha Ivison in St. James Church, Carlisle, England. W.E. Strickland officiated

Commenced return to Australia on 25 September 1919 aboard HT Mahana disembarking on 11 November 1919 at Sydney for onward travel to Brisbane

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal