Hubert Charles WAILES

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WAILES, Hubert Charles

Service Number:	691
Enlisted:	8 February 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	19th Infantry Battalion
Born:	The Pleck, nr. Walsall, Staffordshire, England, 24 April 1883
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Wellingborough, Northampton, England
Occupation:	Railway Night Officer
Died:	Died of wounds at 44th Casualty Clearing Station, Pozieres, Somme Sector, France, 3 August 1916, aged 33 years
Cemetery:	Puchevillers British Cemetery, France II C 60 INSCRIPTION THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY , Puchevillers British Cemetery, Puchevillers, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board

World War 1 Service

8 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 691, 19th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Births Sep 1883 Wailes Hubert Charles Walsall 6b 707

19th Bn. B Company , Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

He was 33 and the son of John William and Esther/Ester Gertrude Mary/May Wailes, of 81, Lion Rd., Bexleyheath, Kent, England. formerly of Inholmes, Burgess Hill, Sussex, England.

Age on arrival in Australia-24
Occupation-Railway night officer
Age at embarkation-31
Enlistment date-8 February 1915
Embarkation details
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT Ceramic on 25 June 1915

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front.

Honoured on the Bexley Roll of Honour.

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