PRYOR, Charles
| Service Number: | 1443 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Minmi, New South Wales, Australia, 23 November 1890 |
| Home Town: | Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheeler |
| Died: | Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia, 8 July 1951, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle Memorial Park (fmly Beresfield Crematorium) Ashes interred Newcastle Memorial Park, N.S.W. Location of Ashes - Pool Wall J/46, date unknown. |
| Memorials: | Minmi Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1443, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1443, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1443, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1443, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, medically discharged (acute pneumonia) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The Minmi Roll of Honour has 79 names inscribed of those who returned home from The Great War.
The 47th name inscribed is Private Charles Edward Pryor.
On the Monday of the 9th July 1951, the remains were privately cremated at Newcastle Memorial Park, N.S.W. of Private Charles Edward Pryor, 35th Battalion Signallers Headquarters (Reg No-1443), wheeler from Church Street, Minmi, New South Wales and the Post office Store, South Cessnock, N.S.W. and 34 Aberdare Road, Cessnock, N.S.W., age 60 years 7 months.
Charles had died at Cessnock Hospital, N.S.W. on the 8th July 1951.
Ashes interred Newcastle Memorial Park, N.S.W. Location of Ashes - Pool Wall J/46, date unknown.
Born at Minmi, New South Wales on the 23rd November 1890 to Arthur, died 7.11.1928, 27 Northcote Street, Aberdare, N.S.W., age 74 years 9 months, buried at Minmi Cemetery, Right Hand Side, Section 21, Plot 001 and Hannah Pryor, died 12.6.1915, Minmi, N.S.W., age 59, mother of 8?, sleeping at Minmi Cemetery, Right Hand Side, Section 21, Plot 001, Minmi, N.S.W., died 30.7.1967, Cessnock, N.S.W., age 71, sleeping at Cessnock Cemetery, Anglican Section 14, Row 9 Lot 141, Charles enlisted on the 14th December 1915, age 25 years, at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Signaller Charles Pryor's name mentioned at a welcome home at Mr. Peel's Hall, Minmi, for Driver Willars Knudsen H Lunn, 1st Australian Field Artillery Brigade Ammunition Column, Reg No.619, labourer from Fredrickburg, Minmi, New South Wales, the 17th name inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour of those who returned home from The Great War. An Original Anzac.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
Admitted to Garrison Military Hospital, Colombo, Ceylon 22.5.1916.
Commenced return to Australia 21.6.1916.
Charles arrived home on the 10th July 1916, being discharged medically unfit (acute pneumonia) on the 30th September 1916.
Mr. Pryor’s name has also been inscribed on the Cessnock War Memorial.
Service record states Died 8th July 1951.
Officially commemorated at Newcastle Memorial Park Cemetery & Crematorium 19.9.1951 - https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
I would like to see poppies placed at Charles’s plaque in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/minmi-roll-of-honour/.
Lest We Forget.
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