ADEY, Charles William
| Service Number: | 803 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 October 1914, Broadmeadows |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Malvern, Victoria, Australia, 10 December 1894 |
| Home Town: | Kew, Boroondara, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Melbourne Grammar School and University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical Student |
| Died: | Natural causes, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 January 1950, aged 55 years |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Church of England, Compartment O, Section 1, Grave 09 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 803, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, Broadmeadows | |
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| 2 Feb 1915: | Involvement Corporal, 803, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Chilka embarkation_ship_number: A51 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Feb 1915: | Embarked Corporal, 803, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, HMAT Chilka, Melbourne | |
| 17 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance | |
| 13 Jan 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 803, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, Orontes, Suez, for return to Australia to complete medical course arriving Sydney 16 February 1918. | |
| 4 Apr 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 803, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance | |
| 14 Jun 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Melbourne | |
| 17 Dec 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Demobilized - not called up for duty. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
C. W. ADEY enlisted in October 1914 and embarked from Australia in February 1915 as Corporal in 3rd L.H. Field Ambulance for Egypt.
He took part in the Battles of Bir-el-abd in August 1916 and of Rafa in January 1917 in the Sinai Desert campaign.
In January 1917 he was promoted to Staff Sergeant, and in that
year took part in the Palestine campaign, being in the fighting around Beersheba in November and Ramleh in December 1917.
In February 1918 he returned to Australia in order to complete
his medical course , but before he could do this the Armistice occurred and he was discharged in December 1918.
Dr. Charles William Adey (55), senior medical officer at the Commonwealth serum laboratories, Royal Park, Melbourne, died in Melbourne last night after a short illness.
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