Charles Frederick ALLDER

Badge Number: S13040
S13040

ALLDER, Charles Frederick

Service Numbers: 2823, S213298
Enlisted: 4 May 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: Army Training Units
Born: Bowden, SA, 4 October 1893
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Injuries, Woodside, SA, Australia, 21 April 1943, aged 49 years
Cemetery: Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
Commonwealth War Graves Path 7, Grave 11, Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Memorials: Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hindmarsh Brompton Methodist Church Honor Roll, Hindmarsh Star of Freedom Tent No 4 IOOR WW1 Roll of Honor, Hindmarsh WW1 Roll of Honour Heroes of the Great War, S.A.R. Engineering Branch Midland System Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

4 Apr 1916: Involvement Sapper, 2823, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
4 Apr 1916: Embarked Sapper, 2823, Mining Corps, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Sapper, 2823

World War 2 Service

4 May 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, S213298
4 May 1940: Enlisted Private, S213298, Cheltenham, SA
4 May 1940: Involvement Corporal, S213298, Army Training Units, Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces
Date unknown: Involvement

World War 1 Service

Date unknown: Wounded 2823

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

UNUSUAL ACCIDENT.
Soldier's Death in Adelaide.
ADELAIDE, May 14.-Charged with having committed a civil offence, namely, ninslaughter, in that he killed Cpl Charles Frederick Allder at an Army training camp on April 21, Cpl Charles Herbert Martin, of an Army training camp, appeared before a general court martial in Adelaide today. Martin pleaded not guilty and the court found him not guilty. The prosecuting officer said that there was no suggestion that Martin intended to cause anyone any harm but it was claimed that he had been guilty of negligence. Martin, a qualified armourer, was working on a tifle in a vice. The rifle was point ing over the beds of certain person nel. About 5.30 pm Allder and others entered the hut. Martin called the attention of a sergeant to the rifle, saying that there was an obstruction in it and that he had broken two armourer's bits trying to get it out. He then took a cartridge from which the bullet had been removed, put it in the breach and called out to Allder "You had better move" in a jocular manner. Martin then pulled the trigger as Allder was moving from a bed in answer to Martin's warning. A piece of a bit struck him, causing his death.

 

Soldier Acquitted
Corporal Charles Herbert Martin, armorer, was acquitted of the
manslaughter of Corporal Charles Frederick Allder by a general court-martial at Adelaide yesterday.
Allder died at a military camp after he was struck in the abdomen by an obstruction which Martin cleared from a rifle when blowing it out with a blank cartridge.
Evidence was given by Martin that he called a warning before firing, and thought Allder had moved out of the way.

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Biography

23 May 1931 marred Ellen Jackson in the Maughan Church, Adelaide

Place of residence at time of death was Bowden