WIGGINS, Charles Edward
| Service Number: | 779 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 July 1915, 39th Fortress Company Engineer, 3 yrs |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Auckland, New Zealand , 24 November 1895 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Wickham Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Shop assistant |
| Died: | 5 April 1969, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW His ashes cremated at Beresfield Crematorium, date unknown, ashes interred at Sandgate Cemetery, date unknown. CONGREGATIONAL-2CNE. 22. |
| Memorials: | Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Newcastle East Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 779, 30th Infantry Battalion, 39th Fortress Company Engineer, 3 yrs | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 779, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 779, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 30 Jun 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 779, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 5th April 1969, Lance Corporal Charles Edward Wiggins, 30th Battalion (Reg No-779), shop assistant from 99 Dumaresque Street, Hamilton, New South Wales and New Lambton?, N.S.W., died age 73, and his ashes cremated at Beresfield Crematorium, date unknown, ashes interred at Sandgate Cemetery, date unknown.
Born at Auckland, New Zealand on the 24th November 1895 to Charles Snr, died 28.6.1953, 99 Dumaresque Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., age?, cremated at Newcastle Memorial Park, not listed on Find a Grave, and Clara Elizabeth Wiggins, died 1966?, Newcastle, N.S.W., Charles enlisted on the 12th July 1915, age 19 years 7 months, at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 9th November 1915.
Disembarked Suez, Egypt 11.12.1915.
Wounded in action - 20.7.1916 (GSW left leg, fractured, slight, Battle of Fromelles), 16.4.1918 (GSW left thigh, severe).
Appointed Lance Corporal 16.10.1917.
Granted leave to England from 20.1.1918 to 3.2.1918.
Invalided to England 21.4.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 8.11.1918.
Charles arrived home invalided on the 29th December 1918, not being discharged until the 20th June 1919.
Mr. Wiggins’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor, Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Hamilton Presbyterian Church (Scots Kirk) Roll of Honour, Hamilton Star of Rechabites Tent No. 80 Roll of Honour, Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Newcastle & Suburban Co-Operative Society Ltd Roll of Honour and the Newcastle 39th Fortress Company, Australian Engineers' Roll of Honour.
Many thanks to Richard Bradley for the notification.
There is a small metal plaque at the gravesite to tell us that the ashes of Charles have been placed here, so October 2019 I erected a cross adorned with poppies in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country. CONGREGATIONAL-2CNE. 22.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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