Charles Louis DYER

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DYER, Charles Louis

Service Number:	62544
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements
Born:	Lillimur, Victoria, Australia , 12 July 1899
Home Town:	Lillimur, West Wimmera, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Pnuemonia, Woodmans Point, Perth Western Australia, 17 January 1919, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia NC1. 12.
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bordertown District of Tatiara WW1 Roll of Honor, Bordertown Wolseley Roll of Honor, Coogee "Boonah" Tragedy Memorial, Kaniva District Pictorial Honour Roll, Kaniva Serviceton Roll of Honor, Kaniva Shire of Lawloit Great War Roll of Sacrifice, Kaniva Shire of Lawloit WW1 Roll of Honor, Wolseley War Memorial

World War 1 Service

22 Oct 1918:	Involvement Private, 62544, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Boonah embarkation_ship_number: A36 public_note: ''
22 Oct 1918:	Embarked Private, 62544, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, HMAT Boonah, Adelaide
17 Jan 1919:	Involvement Private, 62544, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 62544 awm_unit: 6th General Service Reinforcements awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1919-01-17
Date unknown:	Wounded 62544

Private Charles Louis Dyer

The troopship, 'Boonah' arrived back in Fremantle in 1918 bearing soldiers infected with the Spanish Flu then rampant in South Africa where the ship had docked. A number of the soldiers, quarantined at Woodman Point, and the nurses attending them died.

Norman died from that disease on 17 January 1919 and was buried at Woodman Point's military cemetery. On 24 June 1958 he was re-interred at the Perth War Cemetery. He was only 19 years of age, from Lillimur, Victoria.

A room in the museum at the former quarantine station, and a memorial outside the former Isolation Hospital commemorates the tragic victims.

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