Charles Ernest TAYLOR

Surname: TAYLOR

Christian Names: Charles Ernest

Date & Place of Birth: 10/11/1895 Tickera (Daly)

Service Number: 608

Service Unit: 5th Machine Gun Battalion

Date & Place of Enlistment: 20/10/1916 Adelaide

Profession prior to Enlistment: Farmer

Embarkation: 17/1/1917 Melbourne via “Omrah”

Disembarked Devonport 27/3/1917

Nature of Casualty:

Wounds/Illnesses

Gassed 17/4/1918 Villers-Bretonneux

Tfd to England 21/4/18

Place Died of Wounds:

5th General Hospital, Stourbridge, UK

Died of Injuries or disease: 25/4/1918

Next of Kin (NOK) Details

Address: Mother – Tintinara, later changed to Murray Bridge

Father: John Taylor b 1862 m 1895

Mother: Jessie Mina Kinnear b 1874 d 1949 Keith

f – Charles Drummond m – Florance McKenzie

Other

Only child – had rheumatic fever as a child and father wrote a letter to enlistment office advising Charles could only enlist if he was passed as fully physically fit (see letter below)

Service

France:

Arrived Camiera 27/6/17

Other

12/8/17 Guilty of AWOL forfeited 7 days’ pay

Rank Private