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WELLS, Charles Hastings
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 2267 |
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Enlisted: | 17 April 1916, Sydney, NSW |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Rouse Hill, NSW, 1898 |
Home Town: | Rouse Hill, Blacktown, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Rouse Hill Public School |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 22 April 1918 |
Cemetery: |
Arneke British Cemetery I D 9 |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Norwest Mitchell Remembers Roll of Honour, Riverstone and District War Memorial, Rouse Hill Anglican Church WELLS Memorial Plaque |
Biography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of John Richard and Harriet WELLS
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wells, of Rouse Hill, have received word that their youngest son, Private Charles Hasting Wells, died of wounds on April 22. He was 20 years of age and left here in July, 1916 with the 4th reinforcements of the 53rd Battalion,. He was employed at Schofield's Siding sawmills prior to enlistment.
BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE