REID, Charles Plante
| Service Number: | 10485 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | Tighes Hill, New South Wales , 6 November 1896 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Kalgoorlie State School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Cerebro-spinal-meningitis, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 12 December 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Presbyterian Sec 9SW Grave 49, Unknown |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kalgoorlie Caledonian Society Roll of Honor, Kalgoorlie Central School Honour Roll, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 10485, 4th Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 5 Jan 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 10485, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jan 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 10485, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Afric, Melbourne | |
| 13 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 27 Jan 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 10485, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, 2nd MD - medically unfit, illness - TB |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of James and Jessie REID of Hay Street, Kalgoorlie, WA
Died from the effects of gas, strained heart and general debility. Prior to his enlistment he was a railway clerk at Perth.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
103 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 14th December 1917, Driver Charles Plante (or Plant) Reid, 2nd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column (Reg No-10485), clerk from 333 Hay Street, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, who had died at the Newcastle hospital on the 12th December 1917 from cerebral spinal meningitis, was laid to rest with a military funeral at Sandgate Cemetery, age 21. PRESBYTERIAN-9SW. 49.
No Roll of Honour Circular submitted.
Born at Tighes Hill, New South Wales on the 6th November 1896 (as REED), Charles enlisted September 1915 with the 4th Australian Field Artillery Brigade at Perth, Western Australia.
Admitted to hospital 15.7.1916 (tuberculosis), Charles was invalided home October 1916, being discharged medically unfit on the 22nd January 1917.
Mr Reid’s name has been inscribed on the Tighes Hill Public School Honor Roll (photo, unveiled on the 24th May 1918, 144 names now inscribed, 20 Fallen).
From the 21st October to the 17th November 1916 at Fremantle Hospital (tuberculosis, dilated and irritable heart).
Received a full Military funeral, coffin draped with the Union Jack and placed on a gun carriage.
Parents did not receive Memorial Plaque and Scroll until 7th August 1930 due to a misunderstanding regarding place of death.
I placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at the gravesite to honour Charles’s service and sacrifice during The Great War.
Lest We Forget.
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