CARSON, Charles William
| Service Number: | 29505 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 March 1916, 88th Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 6th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, September 1894 |
| Home Town: | West Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Accident - thrown from a lorry, Charlestown, New South Wales, Australia , 17 February 1931 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-36A. 46. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 29505, Australian Field Artillery - 116th to 120th Howitzer Batteries: AIF, 88th Infantry | |
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| 3 Oct 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 29505, Australian Field Artillery - 116th to 120th Howitzer Batteries: AIF, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Oct 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 29505, Australian Field Artillery - 116th to 120th Howitzer Batteries: AIF, HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne | |
| 31 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 29505, 6th Field Artillery Brigade |
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From Gary Mitchell
The tragic story of a Forgotten Digger of The Great War and Sandgate Cemetery.
89 years ago today, on the 17th February 1931, Gunner Charles William Carson, 6th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, clerk from Hay Street, West Perth, Western Australia, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 36. GENERAL-36A. 46. (No funeral notice).
Born at North Fremantle, Western Australia 1894 to James and Jean Carson nee McPhee, Charles enlisted March 1916 with the 118th Howitzer Battery at Perth, Western Australia.
Admitted to hospital 29.1.1918 with scabies, Charles returned home July 1919.
Mr Carson was unemployed, and was travelling through the state with 5 other unemployed mates when on the 16th February he was tragically killed at Charlestown, N.S.W. when thrown from a lorry.
His story in newspaper articles gives us a glimpse of what was happening at that time to many thousands of returned diggers from The Great War.
Please read.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164325329
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137701862
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164309013
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164319566
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164318506
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137699961
I erected a wooden cross June 2019 at the unmarked grave of Mr Carson, now long forgotten, in remembrance of his service for God, King and Country, and if you were to visit, please say his name, as the dead are only ever truly forgotten when they are spoken of no more.
Lest We Forget.
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