Charles Samuel GRINTER

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GRINTER, Charles Samuel

Service Number:	3737
Enlisted:	15 August 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	London, England, United Kingdom, November 1886
Home Town:	North Sydney, North Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness - tuberculosis - war related, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 19 January 1920
Cemetery:	Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales
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World War 1 Service

15 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3737, 1st Infantry Battalion
11 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 3737, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mooltan embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
11 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 3737, 1st Infantry Battalion, RMS Mooltan, Sydney
22 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3737, 1st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , GSW to left arm 22-25/7/1916
9 Mar 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3737, 1st Infantry Battalion, GSW to heard, fractured skull and some right side facial paralysis - severe
15 Feb 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3737, 1st Infantry Battalion, MD 2. Result of wounding. Was promoted to a/Cpl 30/6/1917

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

Summary extracted from SMH article

Private Charles Grinter, born in London, initially served as an officers’ steward in Royal Navy light cruisers from 1902 until 1909 but then started a new life in Sydney.

He enlisted in Holsworthy for the First World War and was severely wounded twice on the Western Front. The second time in action, in March 1918, at Ypres in Belgium, a gunshot wound to the skull just behind the ear resulted in complete paralysis of the right side of his face. Private Grinter is said to have complained of headaches and giddiness.

Private Grinter (AIF, 1st Battalion) returned to Sydney after the war in November 1919 with his new wife, Grace, he’d met in England and his daughter, Grace Dorothy, aged five months. Charles Grinter had married Grace Shirley on 27/5/1917 at Christ Church Hermondsey, London.

Two months later he died of tuberculosis on January 19, 1920. He was buried in an unmarked grave at Rookwood. Grace and Grace Dorothy headed home to England, leaving him behind without even a military memorial. In England the child became know as the "little digger".

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