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HANCHETT, Charles Richard
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 309 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | Siege Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Stanstead, Suffolk, UK, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Rottingdean, Sussex, UK, 1976, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Thursday Island Honour Roll |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1915: | Involvement Gunner, 309, Siege Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Jul 1915: | Embarked Gunner, 309, Siege Artillery Brigade, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne |
Personal Stories
Great Uncle Charles
After the Great War, Charles returned to family in England. He married and had two children, John and Diane. They lived for many years at Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex. After his first wife's death, in later life he married a second time. He died in 1976 aged 81. He has grandchildren and great grandchildren.
His younger brother Richard, who was killed on the 1st July 1916 aged 18.
I have attached his autograph from my grandmother's autograph album, which was sent out to her brothers in Flanders in 1915. My grandmother was his eldest sister, Kathleen Maud Cole (nee Hanchett).
Submitted 12 November 2018 by Frances Morgan
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