Charles Edward WITHALL
Surname: WITHALL
Christian Names: Charles Edward
Date & Place of Birth: 15/4/1886 Queenscliffe, KI
Given Name(s): Charles Edward
Last Name: WITHALL
Birth Date: 1886, April 15
Gender: M
Father: Frank WITHALL
Mother: Edith Fanny REEVES
Birth Place/Residence: Queenscliffe Kangaroo Island
District: Yankalilla
Symbol:
Book/Page: 373/400
Service Number: 2647
Service Unit: 44th Battalion
Date & Place of Enlistment: 18/7/16 Blackboy Hill, WA
Profession prior to Enlistment: Mill Hand - Lived Boulder City, WA
Embarkation: From WA 9/11/16 via Argyllshire
Nature of Casualty:
Date KIA: 21/7/17
Place KIA: Belgium
Buried: Wytschaete Military Cemetery
(Plot V, Row A, Grave No. 20), Belgium
Next of Kin (NOK) Details
Address: (Mother) 1806 Dwyer Street, Boulder City, WA
Father: Frank Withall (1855 – 1942) m 1885 St Alban’s , Kingscote
First policeman on KI (mounted constable)
Mother: Edith Fanny Reeves (f – Augustus, m Eliza Calnan (nee Young)
Service
France: Marched in April 1917
Rank Private
Kleinig Ref: {1457}
Link to Embarkation Roll: http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1949702/
AIF Project
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=329955
Charles Edward WITHALL
Regimental number 2647
Place of birth Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Religion Church of England
Occupation Mill hand
Address 1826 Dwyer Street, Boulder City, Western Australia
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 30
Next of kin Mother, Mrs Edith Withall, 1826 Dwyer Street, Boulder City, Western Australia
Enlistment date 18 July 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 44th Battalion, 5th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/61/2
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on 9 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 44th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 31 July 1917
Place of burial Wytschaete Military Cemetery (Plot V, Row A, Grave No. 20), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 139
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Parents: Frank and Edith Fanny (nee REEVES) WITHALL
Other details
War service: Western FrontMedals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
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Descendants of :
Frank WITHALL
Frank WITHALL was born 14 Jun 1857 in Surrey, England and died 1942 in East Coolgardie, WA. He married Edith Fanny REEVES 09 Jul 1885 in Queenscliffe, Kangaroo Island, SA. She was born 05 Jul 1867 in Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, SA and died 1917 in East Coolgardie, WA, daughter of Augustus REEVES and Eliza Jane YOUNG.
Other events in the life of Frank WITHALL
Occupation: BET 27 Nov 1883 & 02 Apr 1895, K.I.'s first police officer (Mounted Constable)
Children of Frank WITHALL and Edith Fanny REEVES:
i. Charles Edward WITHALL was born 15 Apr 1886 in Queenscliffe, Kangaroo Island, SA and died 31 Jul 1917 in Killed in Action, Belgium
ii. Frank WITHALL was born 25 Dec 1887 in Queenscliffe, Kangaroo Island, SA and died 25 Dec 1887 in Queenscliffe, Kangaroo Island, SA
iii. Sybil Florence Eliza (Florrie) WITHALL was born 22 Jun 1891 in Queenscliffe, Kangaroo Island, SA and died 09 Jun 1950 in Kalgoorlie, WA. She married Melville Guthrie GRAY 25 May 1918 in Boulder, WA. He died 31 Jul 1940 in Perth, WA.
iv. Jack WITHALL was born 28 Mar 1895 in Semaphore, SA and died 28 Mar 1895 in Semaphore, SA
Last updated : 3 June 2021