HAMILTON, Charles David Lyne
| Service Number: | 335 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 August 1915, An original of B Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Casterton, Victoria, Australia, 1878 |
| Home Town: | Wynyard, Waratah/Wynyard, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 29 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 24 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 335, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 24 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 335, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane | |
| 15 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 335, 26th Infantry Battalion, An original of B Company |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Charlie Hamilton was wounded in the arm at Gallipoli during October 1915 and invalided to Malta. He was reported missing at Pozieres, during the fiercest of fighting on 29 July 1916. He was confirmed as killed in action nearly 12 months later by a Court of Enquiry. His younger brother, 336 Pte Arthur Lyne Hamilton, enlisted the same day, in the same unit was also killed in action at Pozieres a week later, 5 August 1916. Both brothers enlisted at Brisbane, and from newspaper reports their great regret was that they were unable to obtain leave of absence to visit their parents in Wynyard Tasmania before sailing. Their mother was awarded a pension of 10 shillings per fortnight for the death of Charlie but she died during November 1917, age 70.
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