Charles Allan OATES

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OATES, Charles Allan

Service Number:	WX5374
Enlisted:	27 July 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Capel, Western Australia, 7 March 1911
Home Town:	Capel, Capel, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	Busselton, Western Australia, 7 August 1961, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Busselton Cemetery, Western Australia
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World War 2 Service

27 Jul 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5374, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion
10 Feb 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5374, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, embarked Fremantle for Middle East
18 Mar 1942:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5374, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion, embarked Middle East for Adelaide on board the Durban Castle
31 Oct 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX5374, 2nd/11th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Charles Allan Oates (Service No:WX5374) enlisted in the AIF on 27 July 1940 - Trade Group Signaller - and was attached to 2/11 Infantry Battalion on 10 February 1941 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for the Middle East. Private Oates embarked from the Middle East for Adelaide on 18 March 1942 on board the Durban Castle, and was attached to 2/11 Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 31 October 1944. Brothers James and Frank also served in WWII.

Charles was born in Capel, Western Australia in 1911, third of five children of Josiah Charles Oates (b1878 in Bendigo, Victoria) and Lily James (b1884 in Frome, South Australia). Josiah was a Miner at Whitehills in Victoria, and in the early 1900s moved to the Western Australian Goldfields, where he worked as a Machinist and Miner at Kamballie and Boulder. He and Lily married in 1904 in Boulder, and lived there and in Kamballie and Meekatharra - Josiah was President of the Boulder branch of the Australian Natives Association and Secretary and Accountant at the Penian Mine in Meekatharra. Josiah served in the AIF (Sapper; Service No:5012), and following Discharge in 1919, he and Lily were at Fimiston until 1922, when Josiah was awarded a farm (under the Soldier Settlement Scheme) at Abba River, Tutunup via Busselton. Josiah and Lily settled at Abba River, where Josiah was a Dairy Farmer and member of the Abba River Settlers' Association.

Charles worked as a Farm Labourer in Capel before enlisting in the AIF in 1940. In 1942 in Capel, he married Marjorie Turner (b1919 in Fremantle, Western Australia). Following his Discharge in 1944, Charles and Marjorie lived in Capel, where Charles was a Dairy Farmer until 1948, when Charles was allocated a Dairy Farm under the War Service Land Settlement Scheme. Charles and Marjorie moved with their children to Yoongarillup via Busselton, where Charles was a Dairy Farmer until his death in 1961. Marjorie died in 2002.

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