RILEY, Willie Charles
| Service Number: | 2525 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Buckrabunyule, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Hay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Lachlan Gate School, Hay, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 27 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Puchevillers British Cemetery, France Plot II, Row B, Grave No. 29, Puchevillers British Cemetery, Puchevillers, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 2525, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
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| 16 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 2525, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne | |
| 4 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2525, 6th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Wounded in action Pozieres 26 July 1916, died the next day in the No.4 Casualty Clearing Station of gunshot wounds to the head.
Riverine Grazier (Hay, NSW) 11 August 1916.
‘His parents received a message from the military authorities on Wednesday that Private Charles William Riley, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Riley, of Lachlan Gate, had been killed in action in France. The deceased soldier, who was about thirty years of age, was a native of Hay, but we understand that he enlisted in Bendigo. He had seen about sixteen months of active service, having been at the Dardanelles prior to the Australians being transferred to France. About six months ago he was temporarily incapacitated by a mild attack of meningitis. A brother, Mr. Hugh Riley, is at present in the training camp.’