PUCKLE, Charles Edward Murray
| Service Number: | 818 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Mullewa, Mullewa, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Melbourne C of E Grammar School; Hawkesbury Agricultural College |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Gallipoli, 3 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula II H 6 |
| Memorials: | Docklands Mission to Seafarers Memorial Baptismal Font, MCC Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918 - Melbourne Cricket Club, Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll, Mullewa Roads Board District Roll of Honour WW1, Richmond University of Western Sydney WW1 Memorial, Toorak St. John's Anglican Church Memorial Window 2, Wagga Wagga Experiment Farm Great War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Private, 818, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Private, 818, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
| 3 Aug 1915: | Involvement Second Lieutenant, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 11 Battalion awm_rank: Second Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1915-08-03 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
CHARLES EDWARD MURRAY PUCKLE who was killed at Anzac on 3rd August 1915 was the son of the late Mr. C. Murray Puckle. He was born in 1887 and entered the Preparatory School in 1898 and came on to the Senior School in 1900. He left in 1904 and, having studied at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, went in for a country life.
He was farming at Kockatea, Mullewa, W.A., in partnership with A. C. Russell. As soon as war was declared he enlisted ; in fact, his was the third name registered in Western Australia. He went off as a Private in the 11th Battalion.
After some months in Egypt in camp he was one of the landing party on that memorable 25th April which took the heights of Gaba Tepe. He was wounded and sent back to Heliopolis.
In hospital there he was under the care of Claude Morlet
(No. 3113 on the School Roll), and returned to the front on 11th June-three weeks earlier than regulations allowed ; but he was eager to get back. He was then Corporal, but on 1st July 1915 he was granted his commission. For gallant and good work performed on the night of 31st July-1st August 1915 in connection with the
taking of a Turkish trench, be was Mentioned in Sir W. R. Birdwood's Orders of 7th August 1915.
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