Charles Octavius BARCLAY

BARCLAY, Charles Octavius

Service Number: 834
Enlisted: 11 March 1916, Mildura, Victoria Australia
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 38th Infantry Battalion
Born: Newcastle-on-Tyne, South Shields, England, 8 June 1887
Home Town: Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 18 June 1918, aged 31 years
Cemetery: Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France
Plot 1 Row B, Grave 20
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Merbein Memorial Gates, Mildura Cenotaph
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World War 1 Service

11 Mar 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Mildura, Victoria Australia
20 Jun 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 834, 38th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: ''
20 Jun 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 834, 38th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Charles Octavius BARCLAY was born in Newcastle on Tyne, England in 1887

His parents were John (Jack) BARCLAY & Hannah ROCHESTER

He married Ethel Lillian HALFORD in Sydney, NSW on 16th September, 1909 - 3 known children, Lilly Adeline, Charles Leslie & Ada Florence all born in Victoria - his son Charles Leslie died as a baby in 1917

He enlisted in Mildura on 11th March, 1916 & embarked from Melbourne on 20th June, 1916 with the 38th Infantry Battalion on the HMAT Runic

Charles was Killed in Action in France on 18th June 1918 and is buried in the Adelaide Cemetery at Villers Bretonneux

His headstone reads - 

                        "There is a link death cannot sever 

                        Love and remembrance last for ever"

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