DARMODY, Charles Albert Edward
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Merchant Navy |
| Born: | Semaphore, South Australia, 1 January 1888 |
| Home Town: | Prospect (SA), Prospect, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Seaman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, English Channel, UK, 1 December 1917, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" He drowned after his ship the Rydal Hall was hit in the English channel off the coast of Eastleigh |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll, Campbell Australian Merchant Seamen Honour Roll, Tower Hill Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Jan 1917: | Involvement Merchant Navy, Merchant Navy , 3rd Mate ship SS Rydal Hall, Liverpool | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement Mercantile Marine Third Mate S S 'Rydal Hall' (Liverpool) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Served in the Mercantile Marine
Third Mate S S 'Rydal Hall' (Liverpool)
Son of Francis Winks Darmody, of 40, Oliver St., Prospect, South Australia, and the late Emma Darmody (nee Birkhead). Born at Port Adelaide.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Charles Albert Edward DARMODY was born in Port Adelaide, South Australia in 1887
His parents were Francis Winks Byron DARMODY & Emma BIRKHEAD nee COOK
Third Mate S S 'Rydal Hall' (Liverpool)
Charles died of drowning on 1st December, 1917 in the English Channel due to his cargo ship being attacked by an enemy submarine which sank in the English Channel with 23 crew members lives lost
His name is memorialised on the Tower Hill Memorial in London
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His brother George Howard DARMODY (SN 4150) also served in WW1 and returned to Australia in 1917
Another brother Joseph Robert DARMODY (SN 503) served in WW1 and also returned to Australia in 1917
Biography contributed by Meredith Jones
Charles Albert Edward DARMODY was born in Semaphore , South Australia on 1st January 1888 , the youngest son, one ten children born to Francis Winks DARMODY , sailor ( 1849-1923) and Emma BIRKHEAD ( 1856- 1914) . He lived at 40 Olive Street Prospect .
In early 1914 he was on board the steamer Craigforth, when she was mined in the Dardanelles a fortnight before Turkey declared war . After being made a prisoner of war, he was released and managed to get to Alexandria through Romania and Greece.
His next ship was the H.M.T.S Warwickshire carrying troops to France, from which he went to the H.M.T.S Istrar carrying troops to Salonika. From senior quartermaster he was promoted to third officer of H.M munition ship the Trentham hall, running to the White Sea in Russia and only left the day before seven munition ships were blown up and 600 lives were lost at Archangel. on his second voyage from archangel his ship was beached in the River Mersey through heavy enemy gnfire. He was then placed as relieving officer on the H.M.T.S. Rydal hall, and while on the return trip from Cape town to England, his ship was torpedoed, and he was with several of the crew lost on December 1st 1917. He was 29 years old.
He is listed on the memorial at Tower Hill in London.
His brother George Howard DARMODY ( SN4150) also served in WW1 and returned to Australia in 1917
Another brother Joseph Robert DARMODY ( SN503) ser in WW1 and also returned to Australia in 1917.
They were my great uncles - brothers to my grandmother.
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