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CREED, Charles Lamplough
| Service Number: | 3036 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 February 1917, Mount Gambier, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hawker, South Australia, Australia, 2 February 1899 |
| Home Town: | Yahl, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | War Related Injuries, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia, 18 August 1921, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (General) Light Oval. 6N. 5E. |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Yahl Memorial Hall Honour Board, Yahl WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Feb 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3036, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Mount Gambier, SA | |
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| 23 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 3036, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 3036, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
3036 Charles Lamplough CREED was born at Hawker, South Australia, on 2 February 1899. He attended school at Strathdownie (south-west of Casterton in Victoria and near the South Australian-Victorian border) before being enrolled at Mount Gambier High School by his father, John James Creed, a carpenter, of Yahl, on 18 January 1915. He left school in December 1915 and worked for the Border Watch until the time of his enlistment.
He enlisted in Mount Gambier on 13 February 1917 (18, printer, single, Salvation Army) naming his father, John James Creed, of Yahl, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Borda’ on 23 June 1918 and disembarked at Plymouth in England on 25 August, when he was found to be suffering from measles and so was hospitalised until 5 September. After being released he was attached to 11th Training Battalion before being sent overseas to France on 18 December 1917, joining the 43rd Battalion on 24 December. He was involved with the battalion in contributing to the stopping of the German Spring Offensive at Villers-Bretonneux in April 1918 but was admitted to hospital on 27 June, evacuated to England on 23 July with what was initially thought to be influenza and broncho-pneumonia but later diagnosed as tuberculosis. He left England on the ‘Kanowna’ on 5 January 1919, disembarked on 7 March, spent seven days in quarantine on Torrens Island before being transferred to Bedford Park Sanitorium for ongoing treatment.
On 4 April 1919 he arrived back in Mount Gambier for a short visit and was welcomed at the Mount Gambier Railway Station by the Mayor and the Reception Committee before being transported along with three other returned men by cars provided by the Motorists’ Association to a more formal reception at the Town Hall which was attended by a crowd of about a thousand. He was discharged ‘medically unfit’ on 23 May 1921 and died on 18 August 1921.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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