Charles Richard VEALL

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Service Number:	6903
Enlisted:	2 July 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	48th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1896
Home Town:	South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Carlton Teachers College, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Student
Died:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 30 August 1969, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Garden of No Distant Place. Cremation service held on 2 September 1969. Commemorated with a plaque in the Victoria Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Parkville Melbourne Teachers College Pictorial Honour Roll

2 Jul 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6903, 27th Infantry Battalion
30 Oct 1917:	Embarked Private, 6903, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Melbourne
30 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 6903, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
6 Apr 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 48th Infantry Battalion, From 27th Battalion
17 May 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6903, 48th Infantry Battalion
8 Aug 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 6903, 48th Infantry Battalion, Second occasion. Severe wound to the thigh. Invalided to England on 11 August 1918
23 May 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6903, 48th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit
Date unknown:	Wounded 6903, 48th Infantry Battalion

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Son of James Pollyblank Veall and Louisa Anne Veall nee Richardson of Balmoral Street, South Yarra, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 9 March 1919 aboard HT Kashmir disembarking on 30 April 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1921c Charles married Christina Hardie Hume in Victoria

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