GRIEVE, Charles Berry
| Service Number: | N73128 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 August 1914, Already serving as a Warrant Officer in the Instructional Corps |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | 5th Divisional Train |
| Born: | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 22 July 1889 |
| Home Town: | Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Professional Soldier - Instructional Corps |
| Died: | Wentworthville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 23 September 1974, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 10 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Warrant Officer, 1st Divisional Train, Already serving as a Warrant Officer in the Instructional Corps | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Warrant Officer, 1st Divisional Train, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jan 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 1st Divisional Train | |
| 28 May 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 1st Divisional Train | |
| 21 Mar 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Captain, 5th Divisional Train | |
| 29 Jun 1917: | Honoured Military Cross, Commonwealth Gazette No. 103 |
World War 2 Service
| 23 May 1940: | Enlisted N73128 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Heather Wellstead
Second son of Thomas and Margaret Grieve, Charles enlisted as a warrent officer in WW1. He was promoted to Captain and was awarded the Military Cross for services. Charles married Iris Banbury whilst on leave in london on 17/06/1919 and later in the war was medically discharged, returning to Australia on the 28/09/1919. Iris requested an anullment of the marriage due to Charles failure re conjugal rights in March 1921. Charles re married Pauline Esmer Reid, 15/12/1923 (widow of Mordaunt Leslie Reid who was MIA and believed killed at Gallipoli on the 25/04/1915.)
Pauline had extensive experience as a Red Cross nurse during the war and helped her sister in laws Eileen Innes Reid and Evelyn Maud Reid set up Omrah Hospital in Darlinghurst for wounded returned soldiers in 1920 and possibly where they initially met. It was known by the family that both had shocking PTSD symptoms and despite being some comfort to each other the marriage ended in 1937. There is a honour roll for Gallipoli soldiers and memorial grave listed on Norfolk Island for Charles who had remarried a Elsie May Rossiter. His date of death is 23/09/1974 at 85 years of age and late of Wentworthville.
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