Charles Edwin CONNOR

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CONNOR, Charles Edwin

Service Number:	7212
Enlisted:	26 September 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Buchan, Victoria, Australia, 29 August 1891
Home Town:	Buchan, East Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

26 Sep 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7212, 6th Infantry Battalion
19 Feb 1917:	Involvement Private, 7212, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
19 Feb 1917:	Embarked Private, 7212, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne
1 Sep 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 21st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Charles only left Australia during February 1917 and was killed by a shell while working as a stretcher bearer during the Battle of Broodseinde some 8 months later.

His younger brother, 2235A Tpr. Herbert Stephen Connor 4th Australian Light Horse, died of pneumonia in Egypt on 10 July 1918, aged 23.

They were the sons of Thomas and Elizabeth Connor, of Buchan, Gippsland, Victoria.

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