WICKHAM, Charles
| Service Number: | 4330 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 August 1915, 4 years senior cadets |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mount Kembla, New South Wales, Australia, December 1897 |
| Home Town: | West Wallsend, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | West Wallsend Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 13 June 1957, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-06. 59. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4330, 13th Infantry Battalion, 4 years senior cadets | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4330, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4330, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 2 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4330, 13th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
67 years ago today, on the 14th June 1957, Private Charles Wickham, 13th Battalion (Reg No-4330), labourer from South Street, West Wallsend, New South Wales and 42 Maitland Road, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1937), father of two (Walter Alfred Thomas, & Desolie Winifred Valmine), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 59. METHODIST 4-06. 59.
Born at Mount Kembla, New South Wales about 1898 to Frederick Alexander and Catherine Wickham; husband of Albatha Minnie Wickham nee Griffith, married 29.11.1919, Wickham, N.S.W., died 25.9.1985, Newcastle, N.S.W., as Albertha, age 84, sleeping at METHODIST 4-08. 58, Charlie enlisted on the 9th August 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on the 20th December 1915.
Admitted to hospital 7.9.1916 (appendicitis, slight).
Wounded in action - 8.8.1918 (SW left hand & arm).
Commenced return to Australia 28.3.1919.
Charlie arrived home invalided on the 10th May 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 2nd July 1919.
Mr. Wickham’s name has been inscribed on the West Wallsend Superior Public School Honour Roll, West Wallsend Soldiers' Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Charlie’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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