Charles William BENSON

BENSON, Charles William

Service Numbers: 3462, 3462A
Enlisted: 10 January 1916, Recruitment Office - Rockhampton
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born: Charters Towers, Queensland, 1892
Home Town: Charters Towers, Charters Towers, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Miner
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 10 June 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
No known grave, Sapper Charles W. Benson was killed in action on June 10, 1917 and was buried on the West Bank of the Yser Canal in the northern outskirts of Ypres, Belgium reported the Director of Graves on November, 21, 1917. The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, often referred to simply as the Menin Gate, bears the names of more than 54,000 soldiers who died before 16 August 1917 and have no known grave. Between October 1914 and September 1918 hundreds of thousands of servicemen of the British Empire marched through the town of Ypres's Menin Gate on their way to the battlefields. The memorial now stands as a reminder of those who died who have no known grave and is perhaps one of the most well-known war memorials in the world., Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company Honour Roll, Queenton State School Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

10 Jan 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3462, Mining Corps, Recruitment Office - Rockhampton
16 Aug 1916: Embarked Sapper, 3462, Mining Corps, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
16 Aug 1916: Involvement Sapper, 3462, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
16 Aug 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Mining Corps
20 Sep 1916: Embarked Private, 3462, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Uganda, Fremantle
20 Sep 1916: Involvement Private, 3462, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Uganda embarkation_ship_number: A66 public_note: ''
10 Jun 1917: Involvement Private, 3462A, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3462A awm_unit: 51 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-06-10

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Charles William Benson was born in Charters Towers, Queensland in 1892, one of five children of Andrew Peter Benson and Frances Catherine (formerly Beale).