MILLER, Charles Stanger
Service Number: | 3088 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Bower, Caithness, Scotland., 1893 |
Home Town: | Greenbushes, Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Bower Public School, Caithness, Scotland |
Occupation: | Miner |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 20 August 1916 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated on the VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL, 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
13 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 3088, 11th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
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13 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 3088, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Boirn at Bower (Scottish Gaelic: Bàgair) a village and civil parish in Highland, Scotland It is 10 miles from Thurso and around 11 miles from Wick.
Killed between the dates 20 August 1916 and 23 August 1916-aged 23.
His parents are shown as John Ross and Christine Stanger Ross [John may have been Charles' step-father] of Isauld Farm, Reay and of 14 Manson Lane, Thurso, Caithness, Scotland.
He is honoured on the Reay War Memorial and on the Bower War Memorial.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His mother's forename may have been Catherine.