BATES, Charles William Henry
| Service Number: | Q207649 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 30 September 1908 |
| Home Town: | Kalkie, Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Sugar Cane and Tobacco Farmer |
| Died: | Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, 21 July 2009, aged 100 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bundaberg General Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 12 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q207649, 10th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 28 Apr 1942: | Involvement Private, Q207649 | |
| 28 Apr 1942: | Enlisted | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged | |
| 21 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q207649, 10th (QLD) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Eldest of two brothers who served in WWII, Private Charles William Henry Bates (Service No:Q207649) served in the ACMF with 10th (QLD) Battalion VDC from 12 April 1942 to 21 October 1945.
Charlie was born in 1908 in Bundaberg, QLD, eldest of five children of Henry Bates (b1884 in Bundaberg, QLD) and Ada Jacobena Carlsson (b1885 in Kalkie via Bundaberg, QLD). Henry was a Miner in Gaeta via Bundaberg before he and Ada married in 1907 in Bundaberg. The couple settled at Batesville in Kolan via Bundaberg, where they raised their family and Henry was a Farmer.
Charlie was a Sugar Cane and Tobacco Farmer at Kalkie via Bundaberg in 1935 when he married Edna May Walk (b1916 in Howard, QLD). Charlie and Edna settled in South Kalkie, where they raised their family and Charlie was a Farmer. Edna died in 2006, and Charlie in 2009 at one hundred years of age.
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