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EVANS, Erle Cherrington
| Service Number: | 905 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 August 1914, Morphettville |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Kent Town, South Australia, Australia, 13 April 1888 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Traveller |
| Died: | Daw Park, South Australia, 1 November 1971, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia RSL Walls |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 905, 10th Infantry Battalion, Morphettville | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 905, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 905, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide | |
| 12 Apr 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 905, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 905, 10th Infantry Battalion |
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Son of Phillip Henry EVANS and Amy nee CHERRINGTON
Erle Evans Charrington was one of the 417,000 Australian men who fought in World War One. The possibility of returning to family and friends was unknown, meaning they were taking a huge risk. Erle Evans Charrington was born in 1888 in Kent Town, South Australia. Before the war he worked as a Traveller. This occupation would include travelling from place to place showing samples of goods. Erle Evans was a taken man, married to Ethel Blanch Evans and had 5 children. Leaving for war would have been emotionally difficult. He had a fresh complexion, brown eyes and black hair, standing 5.6 ½ feet (172cm) and 154lbs (69 kg). At the age of 26, Erle Evans enlisted to serve his country at war on 31 August 1914 as a private. He was in the 10th Battalion, C company, which embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on transport A11 Ascanius on 20 October 1914.
Those recruited in August of 1914 were sent to Egypt, where Erle commenced four and a half months of training near Cairo. The training was of high intensity and would go for 8 hours a day, and during this period of training Erle was promoted to Corporal. After these four and a half months of training, Erle and his fellow Australian troops, with New Zealand, British and French troops departed by ship for the Gallipoli peninsula. He landed in what would be known as Anzac Cover on 25 April 1915. Erle Evans Charrington was one of 60,000 Australians who fought in the battle of Gallipoli. He was there for only a minimal period of time, however, probably being wounded on the first day. By 30 April he was back in Egypt and from there, on 28 June, was put on a ship bound for Australia. His records do not reveal the nature of his wound. He was discharged from the AIF on 12 April 1916 and received a pension. He then was reunited with his 5 children and wife, then received further medical attention from his gunshot wound. He lived until the age of 83 when he died, he is now resting in peace in Centennial Park Cemetery. Erle Evans Charrington lived a long and fulfilled life, fighting in World War One serving his country.
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