Charles Henry PRITCHARD

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PRITCHARD, Charles Henry

Service Number:	6075
Enlisted:	22 March 1916, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Battersea, England, United Kingdom, 1882
Home Town:	Katanning, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer Labourer
Died:	Died of Illness - Dropsy, Germany, 9 September 1917
Cemetery:	Niederzwehren Cemetery Langensalza P.O.W. Cemetery Memorial 5. Inscription reads: Who died as a Prispner of Warand was buried in Langensalza Prisoners of War Cemetery No. 2 but whose grave cannot be found. Their glory shall not be blotted out, Niederzwehren Cemetery, Niederzwehren, Germany
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

22 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6075, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
7 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 6075, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: ''
7 Aug 1916:	Embarked Private, 6075, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Miltiades, Fremantle
11 Apr 1917:	Imprisoned Captain Ohrdruf, Germany, reported he was a Prisoner of War in Germany

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Frederick Thomas Pritchard of 74 New Road, Battersea, London, UK; brother of Annie Welch of 4 Acre Street, New Road, Battersea

4 September 1917 - Charles wrote a letter home from his hospital bed asking his family for one of them to write to him as he had been a POW for 6 months and hadn't had a letter nor any Red Cross parcel

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Also 6 years in the Kings Royal Rifles

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