LARSON, Carl
| Service Number: | 3139 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 4th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company |
| Born: | Stockholm, Sweden , April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Kurri Kurri, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheeler |
| Died: | Belmont, New South Wales, Australia, 2 April 1963, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-194. 13. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3139, 1st Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 3139, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 3139, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 22 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 3139, 4th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
61 years ago today, on the 3rd April 1963, Sapper Charles Hugh Larson, referred to as Karl and Carl Max, 4th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company (Reg No-3139), wheeler from Hopetoun Street, Kurri Kurri, New South Wales and 19 Herbert Street, Belmont, N.S.W., father of five (Ron, Jessie, Gladys, Bobby, Keith), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 70. ANGLICAN 3-194. 13.
Born at Stockholm, Sweden about 1893 to Karl John and Christina Charlotta Larson; husband of Agnes Jane Larson of 256 Park Road, Moore Park, New South Wales (married 1916, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., as Carl H. L. Larson, Agnes died 3.5.1944, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 44, sleeping at CATHOLIC 2-32. 74), Charles enlisted on the 10th July 1916 as Carl with the 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion at Kurri Kurri, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A30 Borda on the 17th October 1916.
Admitted to hospital 28.3.1918 (ear infection), 23.5.1918 (deafness & otis media - middle ear infection).
Commenced return to Australia 7.2.1919.
Admitted to ship hospital at sea 13.2.1919.
Carl returned home on the 24th March 1919, being discharged on the 22nd May 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.
Mr. Larson’s name has been inscribed on the Cessnock War Memorial. Name not inscribed on the Kurri Kurri Soldiers' Memorial.
I have placed poppies at Charles’s (known as Karl Larson) gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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