Charles Henry JUDE

JUDE, Charles Henry

Service Number: 2156
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 17th Infantry Battalion
Born: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England., 1892
Home Town: Canobolas, Orange Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Killed in Action, France, 26 August 1916
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, Caudry Old Communal Cemetery, Caudry, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Orange Cenotaph, Orange WW1 Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

30 Sep 1915: Involvement Private, 2156, 17th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
30 Sep 1915: Embarked Private, 2156, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Births Jun 1892  Jude Charles Henry Wisbech 3b 587

He was 24.

His brother Private Samuel Jude, aged 29, Service Number 2866, 3rd Bn Australian Imperial Force was wounded in battle 14-5-16 but sadly died of those wounds on 20th July 1916 in Brook War Hospital, Woolwich, South London, and was laid to rest in Wisbech Cemetery. His wargrave bears the inscription:

ALSO IN MEMORY OF PRIVATE CHARLES HENRY JUDE 17TH BN. AUSTRALIAN INF. 26TH AUGUST 1916

They were sons of Samuel & Sarah Jude, South Brink, Wisbech. 

He is one of three Australian casualties of the Great War remembered on the Wisbech 1914-1918 War Memorial, his brother being one of them.

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