COX, Charles John
| Service Number: | 7558 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia, 1891 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Repatriation Hospital, Kenmore, Queensland, Australia, 7 December 1975, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Double Bay War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Nov 1915: | Involvement Driver, 7558, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: HMAT Bulla embarkation_ship_number: A45 public_note: '' | |
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| 25 Nov 1915: | Embarked Driver, 7558, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Bulla |
1916 Memerambi Roll of Honour
An article in the Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser Friday 28 April 1916 about the opening of the Memerambi Rifle Club also included the unveiling of the Memerambi Roll of Honour by Mrs Ellwood. The Roll of Honour was in a glassed frame so was probably similar to the pictorial memorial at Wooroolin Memorial Hall. I wonder what happened to it!
Page 32 of Memerambi Moments by Dr Judith Grimes states: Many young men from Memerambi enlisted for overseas duty. As each left, the town gathered, first to fete them as heroes for enlisting and then to bid them farewell at the railway station. Some of those who made the supreme sacrifice were Edgar Postle, Luke Coe, Harry Burrow, Jim McLennan and Ernie Hosier.
Charles Cox, SERN 7558 : POB St George NSW : POE Holsworthy NSW, was living at Tingoora and Memerambi before WW1. He returned home to NSW to enlist on 23 Aug 1915 and is included in the article about the Memerambi Roll of Honour. Charles served with the Field Artillery Brigade 5, Battery 15 and was severely wounded in the chest and arm whilst in France in 1916. He was returned to Australia and discharged 22 Jul 1917. Charles retuned to Memerambi then took a Soldiers Settlement at Yarraman where he lived for many years. Charles died in 1975 and is remembered at the Queensland Garden of Remembrance and Double Bay War Memorial.
Lest We Forget
Submitted 26 July 2023 by Carol Berry