Charles Victor OLIVER

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Service Number:	8985
Enlisted:	20 July 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/2nd Casualty Clearing Station
Born:	Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia , 1884
Home Town:	Alfredton, Ballarat, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Shunter
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, January 1935, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Church of England, Row M, Grave 334. Interred on 25 January 1935
Memorials:

20 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 8985, 1st Stationary Hospital (AIF), Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
8 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 8985, 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
8 Feb 1916:	Embarked Private, 8985, 1st Stationary Hospital (AIF), HMAT Warilda, Melbourne
8 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 8985, 1st Stationary Hospital (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
8 Feb 1916:	Embarked Private, 8985, 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne
8 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd/2nd Casualty Clearing Station
11 Oct 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 8985, 2nd/2nd Casualty Clearing Station, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to chronic fibrous lung

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Son of Charles Oliver and Clara Grace Olive nee Mills of Bacchus March, Victoria.

Husband of Linda Alice Oliver nee Ruthford of Vale Street, Alfredton, Ballarat West, Victoria. Charles and Linda married during 1912c in Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 5 July 1916 aboard HS Karoola disembarking on 8 August 1916

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal