Charles James MOORE

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Service Number:	2392
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	14th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	Artarmon, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling:	Chatswood Public School, New South Wales
Occupation:	Warehouseman
Died:	Killed in Action, Fleurbaix, France, 20 July 1916, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France Panel 23. The Official Point of Commemoration has been moved from the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial to V.C. CORNER AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY AND MEMORIAL, FROMELLES- France because he was killed in action [missing] at Fromelles. , Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

14 Jul 1915:	Involvement Private, 2392, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
14 Jul 1915:	Embarked Private, 2392, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney
20 Jul 1916:	Involvement Private, 2392, 14th Machine Gun Company, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2392 awm_unit: 14 Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-20

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He was 23 and the son of Mrs. Bessie Ellen Moore, of "Sunnyside", Cambridge Rd., Artarmon, New South Wales.

Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 18 October 1915; joined 1st Bn, Gallipoli, 4 November 1915.

Wounded in action, 10 December 1915 (bullet wound, head), and admitted to No 1 Casualty Clearing Station; rejoined Bn, 11 December 1915.

Disembarked Alexandria, 28 December 1915 (general Gallipoli evacuation).

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 25 June 1916.

Mrs. Bessie Ellen Moore also lived at Francis Street, Artarmon, Sydney, New South Wales.