Lance Sergeant: 411 Alfred John CHARLTON

36th BATTALION AIF

Lance Sergeant: 411 Alfred "Fred" John CHARLTON

Born: 1st August 1888. Lambton, New South Wales, Australia.

Died: 20th December 1917. Killed in Action. Armentieres, France.

Father: Edward Charlton. (1850-1938) Died at Lambton, N.S.W.

Mother: Isabelle Christina Charlton. nee: Dorrity. (1860-1931) Died at Lambton, N.S.W.

INFORMATION

Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery, have I been forgotten?

104 years ago today, on the 20th December 1917, Lance Sergeant Alfred (Fred) John Charlton, 36th Battalion (Reg No-411), railway clerk (Singleton Railway Station, N.S.W.), of 84 Elder Street, Lambton, New South Wales, was Killed in Action at Armentieres, France, age 29.

http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1675404/ - Roll of Honour.

Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 1st August 1888 to Edward (Mayor of Lambton, died 1938 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133140212, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133140215, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133149287) and Isabella (died 1931 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139638321, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139617395, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139620389) Charlton nee Dorrity, Fred enlisted January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137104798 - presentation of pocket wallet.

Wounded in action - 10.6.1917 (GSW left arm, both legs, buttocks, severe, Battle of Messines).

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134866587 - reported wounded.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122220691 - report that Alfred making satisfactory recovery.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138157615 - reported KIA.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123666401 - reported KIA.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138157620 - Late Sergeant Charlton.

Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France.

Fred is resting at Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France. Plot I Row C Grave 42.

Mr. Charlton’s name has been inscribed on the Lambton Post Office Roll of Honor (photo, unveiled on the 8th July 1916, 5 names originally inscribed, 32 names now inscribed of the Fallen - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133876591), Lambton and New Lambton Roll of Honor, New Lambton Public School Roll of Honour, New Lambton War Memorial Gates, Lambton Lodge Independent Order of Oddfellows Roll of Honour, NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies at the Charlton gravesite in remembrance of their son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 19 SW. 35.

http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/.../index.php...

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

Lest We Forget.

(Gary Mitchell: 2021)

Alfred was promoted to Corporal on the 31st May 1917 when Corporal: 523 Sydney Horace NEWELL was promoted to Lance Sergeant

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