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STEWART, Charles Herbert
Personal Details
Service Number: | 7572 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Byaduk, Victoria, Australia, 1889 |
Home Town: | Byaduk, Southern Grampians, Victoria |
Schooling: | Byaduk State School, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 9 August 1918 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Byaduk War Memorial, Hamilton Borough of Hamilton Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
4 Aug 1917: | Involvement Private, 7572, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
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4 Aug 1917: | Embarked Private, 7572, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
13 Feb 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7572, 6th Infantry Battalion, Arrived in Le Havre, France from England. | |
9 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7572, 6th Infantry Battalion, Charles was killed instantly by a sniper at Rosières-en-Santerre, France while attending to a wounded Lieutenant Edward James Archer. He was buried in a Soldiers grave not far from the train station at Rosieres. |
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