KELLY, Charles Colman
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Royal Field Artillery |
| Born: | Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 1 August 1888 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 25 May 1963, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Caramut Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Lieutenant, Officer, Royal Field Artillery |
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Son of George Colman KELLY and Agnes Dalziel nee WILSON
Husband of Gwendolen Ellen nee AFFLECK
Lt Charles Colman Kelly MC, born in Melbourne 1 August 1888, enlisted in England on 13 September 1915, served with D Battery, 59th Brigade, 11th Division RFA, awarded Military Cross on 18 July 1917 (London Gazette 17 September 1917) ‘for work at Arras as FOO on 9 April 1917, when he maintained communication throughout the day, and sent back information which proved to be of the utmost value, although exposed to particularly heavy MG and rifle fire’. Served at Bullecourt and Ypres, suffered effects of a gas attack on 23 July 1917, evacuated to England. Returned to France shortly before the Armistice, and at the end of the war hoped to go forward to Germany with the Army of Occupation, however he was used to drove horses from Belgium to Boulogne, where he drafted them either for use of the Army of Occupation or return to England.
Courtesy of James Affleck
Mrs. George Kelly, of Montalto, Toorak, has received a cable message, advising that her son, Charles oleman Kelly, of Barwidgee, Has been gazetted an officer in the Royal Field Artillery, and left for the French front about 10 days ago. - 12 Aug 1916
Information has been received by Mr.L,. J. Weatherly, that Lieut. C. C. Kelly of "Barwidgee" has been gassed in France. Lieut. Kelly's friends trust that he will make a speedy recovery. - 25 Aug 1917
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