WALLS, Charles
| Service Number: | 4327 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Employment Company |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia , 25 May 1885 |
| Home Town: | Boolaroo, Lake Macquarie Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Boolaroo School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner and business manager |
| Died: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia , 4 January 1946, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-01. 21. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4327, 1st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 4327, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4327, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney | |
| 6 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4327, Australian Employment Company, 2nd MD, medically unfit (feet) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
78 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 6th January 1946, Private Charles Walls, Australian Employment Company (Reg No-4327), miner and business manager from Fourth Street, Boolaroo, New South Wales and Elder Street, Lambton, N.S.W., father of three (Harry, Roy, Doreen), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 60. METHODIST 4-01. 21.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 25th May 1885 to John and Sarah Ann Walls; husband of Margaret Ann Walls nee Lewis (married 1905, Wallsend, N.S.W., died 25.1.1932, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 45), Charles remarried to Ruth Walls nee Johnstone (married 1935, New Lambton, N.S.W., died 12.7.1946, Wallsend Hospital, N.S.W., age 58), Charles enlisted on the 15th August 1915 with the 1st Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on the 20th December 1915.
Admitted to hospital 3.6.1916 (bronchitis), 26.2.1918 (bunions on feet), 15.4.1918 (bunions).
Granted leave to England & France from 23.8.1917 to 3.9.1917.
Commenced return to Australia 20.10.1918.
Charles arrived home invalided on the 19th December 1918, being discharged medically unfit (defective feet, bunions on both toes, aggravated by trench feet) on the 6th February 1919.
Mr. Walls’s name has been inscribed on the Boolaroo Methodist Church Roll of Honour. Name not inscribed on the Boolaroo District Pictorial Roll of Honour. A member of the Free Gardeners' Lodge.
I have placed poppies at Charles’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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