Charles Edward OLIVER

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Service Number:	904
Enlisted:	23 February 1916, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Queenstown, South Australia, 1 May 1887
Home Town:	Queenstown, Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Woodville, South Australia, 20 November 1967, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia Section Y, Drive D, Path 36, Grave 1895. Interred on 22 November 1967
Memorials:

23 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 904, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
9 Jun 1916:	Involvement Private, 904, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
9 Jun 1916:	Embarked Private, 904, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide
28 Apr 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, From 43rd Battalion
23 May 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 904, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Shell wound to the left foot
10 Mar 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 904, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Discharged the 4th Military District as medically unfit due to shell injury to the left leg

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Son of Thomas Benjamin Oliver and Elizabeth Chirstine Oliver nee Woodling of New Street, Queenstown, SA

Commenced return to Australia on 27 September 1918 aboard HT Runic disembarking on 22 November 1918 at Melbourne for onward travel to Adelaide

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 17 October 1925 Charles married Florence Warkins in St Johns Church, Adelaide, SA