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STEWART, Charles Herbert

Service Number:	7572
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)

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: ''
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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