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DURDIN, Charles Thomas
| Service Number: | 3353 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Glenburn, South Australia, 3 June 1882 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Loxton, South Australia, 1 June 1920, aged 37 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Hamley Bridge General Cemetery Site 165 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 3353, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 3353, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement 3353, 3rd Light Horse Regiment | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 3353, 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Breanna Durdin
Charles Thomas Durdin was born on the 3rd of June, 1882, and grew up on a farm with his parents, Emma and Jesse Durdin, his brothers, Albert, George, and William and his sister, Elsie. Before Charles when to war, he was a farmer.
Charles Durdin left Adelaide on the 19th June, 1917 and set sail from Melbourne on the 22nd of June, 1917 on the HMAT Port Lincoln A17.
He disembarked at Suez on the 6th of August, 1917 and marched into the isolation camp in Moascar.
On the 6th of September, 1917, from the isolation camp, Charles was taken on strength to the 1st Light Horse Regiment in Egypt. Charles was detached to the school of instruction in Egypt on the 24th of September, 1917. On the 4th of October, he was taken on strength to the 1st Light Horse Training Regiment.
Charles was wounded in action on 8th November 1917 and eventually admitted to hospital with a gunshot wound to his left shoulder on 15th November 1917. After treatment, he was transferred to the Port Said rest camp.
In October 1918, Charles was sick and was eventually transferred to Abbassia Hospital with malaria on 20th October 1918.
On 16th May 1919, he embarked on the H.T. Orari hospital transport for Australia, arriving on 26th June 1919.
He was discharged in July 1919.
Charles was buried in the Hamley Bridge Cemetery.
Charles was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.