KING, Charles
| Service Number: | 556 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Manoora, South Australia, 24 July 1891 |
| Home Town: | Manoora, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Plot 1, Row G, Grave 5, Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manoora Institute Supreme Sacrifice Roll, Manoora Pictorial Honour Roll, Manoora Roll of Honour WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 556, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 556, 10th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 556, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide | |
| 25 Apr 1915: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Driver, 556, 10th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 556 awm_unit: 10 Battalion awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1915-08-06 |
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| 6 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 556, 10th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli |
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The King family
In 1883 the Ware family of brewers and horse owners purchased property north east of Manoora. They named the property “Craiglee”. Being absentee landowners the Ware family appointed Thomas King to manage the property. Thomas King managed Craiglee for 21 years until his death in 1906. Six of the children of Thomas and his wife Mary (nee Michael) were born at Manoora.
Charles King had served for less than a year when he was killed in action at Gallipoli.
The son of Thomas and Mary King, Charles was born in Manoora on the 24th July 1891. A labourer, his address at the time of his enlistment was care of Mr. F. M. Fromme, Randolph Street, Henley Park. Charles was 23 years of age when he joined the military on 25 August 1914. As his parents were deceased he nominated his eldest brother, Lewis Augusta King of Weetulta and later of Kulpara, as his next of kin.
“On Wednesday evening a farewell social was tendered at the Trades Hall Grote St, to Mr Charles King of Manoora, who is proceeding to Europe with the Australian expeditionary forces” – The Advertiser, Friday 14 September 1914
Charles was immediately posted to D Company, 10th Battalion AIF. 10th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF. Raised within weeks of the declaration of war in August 1914 it embarked from Adelaide aboard the first troopship to leave South Australia’s shores, the transport HMAT A11 Ascanius, on the 20th October 1914. The Ascanius sailed with the Anzac convoy for the Middle East, embarking in Port Said on 1 December. After several months training based at Mena Camp in the shadows of the Pyramids, where Charles was appointed D Company Driver, the Battalion again embarked on the troopship HMT Ionian for the island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea.
10th Battalion was one of the first ashore for the Anzac landing on 25 April 1915.
No details of how or where Charles was killed on the 6 August 1915 are available. On that day the Turks attacked the 11th Battalion at Leannes Post and the 10th Battalion assisted by giving covering fire to the “Valley of Despair’” and “Snipers Ridge”.
Initially buried at Victoria Gully about ½ mile south east of Anzac Cove, Charles remains were exhumed twice. In 1921 his remains were interred in Browns Dip Cemetery, about 500 yards south of Anzac Cove and in 1923 re-interred in the Lone Pine Cemetery, 1 3/8 miles south east of Anzac Cove, Gallipoli.
Charles is buried in Plot1, Row G, Grave 5
Biography
Son of the late Thomas and Mary King. Native of Manoora, South Australia.
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