David CHARLESWORTH

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CHARLESWORTH, David

Service Numbers:	1349, 1429
Enlisted:	2 December 1914
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Bourke, New South Wales, Australia, 26 June 1897
Home Town:	Cobar, Cobar, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stockman
Died:	Accident - run over by tram while working as a tram conductor, Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 3 December 1919, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-7SW. 72.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

2 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1349, 13th Infantry Battalion
11 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 1429, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Sydney
11 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 1429, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: ''
17 Jul 1915:	Promoted AIF WW1, Driver, 13th Infantry Battalion
11 Sep 1915:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, Australian Army Service Corps
16 Oct 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion
19 Mar 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1349, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

The tragic story of a Returned Digger of The Great War resting at Sandgate Cemetery, have I been forgotten?

102 years ago today, on the 5th December 1919, Driver David George Charlesworth, 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion (Reg No-1349, also recorded as 1529, 1429 - 3rd Battalion), stockman and tramway employee (conductor) from Cobar, New South Wales and 1 Hogue Street, Maryville, (Smedmore) N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery with a Military Funeral, age 22. PRESBYTERIAN-7SW. 72.

Born at Bourke, New South Wales on the 26th June 1897 to Edward and Alice M M Charlesworth nee Franklin; husband of Nellie Florence Charlesworth nee Adair (married 15.11.1919, Newcastle, N.S.W., only 19 days, died 1923, sleeping here), David enlisted December 1914 with the 13th Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital - 7.5.1915 (rheumatism), 15.1.1916 (rheumatism), 14.2.1917 (scabies).
David returned home January 1919 (1915 Leave), being discharged on the 31st March 1919.

Mr. Charlesworth’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not located inscribed on any other War Memorial or Roll of Honour. A member of the Wickham Lodge No.35 Independent Order of Oddfellows (I.O.O.F.).
The tragic circumstances of David’s death were reported Tram Conductor Run Over then that David had died from injuries.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at the gravesite in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

Lest We Forget.

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