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CARTWRIGHT, Charles Lewis
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 227 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | New South Wales Citizen Bushmen |
| Born: | Wagga Wagga New South Wales, Australia , 25 August 1874 |
| Home Town: | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia , 1949, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Narrandera War Cemetery, New South Wales |
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Service History
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Trooper, 227, New South Wales Citizen Bushmen |
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Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robyn Keenan
A Bungendore man, he was born 25 August 1875 at Wagga Wagga. On enlistment he was working as a station hand at Coolamon. He was reported as being at Pienaar’s River in late 1900, having had enteric fever. On 11 June 1901, he returns to Australia on the Morayshire having been awarded the Queens Medal with four clasps. He later joined up with the Canadian Scouts as a Staff Sergent from 1901 to the end of the war.
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