WOHLCKE, Charles Bruno
| Other Name: | Wilkie, Charles - Service Record |
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| Service Number: | 25413 |
| Enlisted: | 17 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF |
| Born: | Cork, Ireland, 4 February 1877 |
| Home Town: | Bayswater, Bayswater, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Unknown |
| Occupation: | Flour Packer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 29 April 1918, aged 41 years |
| Cemetery: |
Frechencourt Communal Cemetery Row A, Grave 17, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Peerless Flour Mill Ltd. Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 25413 | |
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| 27 Jun 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 25413, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Barambah embarkation_ship_number: A37 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Jun 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 25413, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, HMAT Barambah, Melbourne | |
| 29 Apr 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 25413, 2nd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Charles Bruno WOHLCKE was born in Cork, Ireland on 4th February, 1877
His parents were Henry & Wanda Lange WOHLCKE
He married Annie HARGREAVES in 1901 in Leeds, England - Annie died in Perth Public Hospital, WA on 3rd May, 1921
He served under the alias of Charles WILKIE
He had previously served for 2 years in the Royal Army Medical Corps before enlisting to serve in WW1
Charles was Killed in Action in France on 29th April, 1918
OBITUARY from the newspaper by his wife Annie
"I loved what God has taken
I loved, but could not save
His gallant life, how stored it was
with bright hope unfulfilled
No one knows the parting, or what the parting cost
but God in his great mercy
hath gained what I have lost"
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