Charles Bruno WOHLCKE

WOHLCKE, Charles Bruno

Other Name: Wilkie, Charles - Service Record
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, Merredin Peerless Flour Mill Ltd. Honour Roll
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World War 1 Service

17 Jan 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 25413
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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Biography 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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