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Charles Albert GRUMONT

Regimental number3062
Place of birthUpper Macedon, Victoria
SchoolUpper Macedon State School, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationGardener
AddressMacedon Upper, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation29
Height5' 10"
Weight161 lbs
Next of kinMother, Mrs M. Norton, Upper Macedon, Victoria
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date12 July 1915
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name8th Battalion, 10th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/25/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT RMS Osterley on 29 September 1915
Rank from Nominal RollSergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll59th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Age at death from cemetery records30
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsV.C. Corner (Panel No 15), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
167
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Henry and Mary GRUMONT, Upper Macedon, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrothers: [944] 2nd Lt Arthur Laughlan GRUMONT, 49th Bn, returned to Australia, 12 December 1918; 5320 Sapper David Colin GRUMONT, 5th Divisional Signal Company, died of wounds, 16 June 1918; 5319 Sapper James Lindsay GRUMONT, 5th Divisional Signal Company, returned to Australia, 31 January 1918.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Allotted to and proceeded to join 59th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 26 February 1916, and reverted to the ranks on joining the Bn.

Admitted to 15th Field Ambulance, 12 March 1916 (parotitis), and transferred same day to 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital (mumps); discharged to unit, 24 March 1916.

Promoted Corporal, Duntroon Plateau, 20 April 1916.

Appointed Lance Sergeant, Ferry Post, 26 May 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.

Promoted Sergeant, 3 July 1916.Posted missing, 19 July 1916.

Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 29 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.

Handwritten note on Form B103: 'Presume Buried In No Man's Land approx 5J90 43 to 5K02.5.1 Sheet Hazebrouck 5A'.

Statement, Red Cross File No 1230214, 3072 Pte J.M. GREGORY, 59th Bn (patient, 5th Southern General Hospital, Portsmouth, England), 5 December 1916: 'Informant states that on July 19th 1916 at Fromelles near Armentieres the day of the charge Grumont was shot down just as he was going over the parapet.'

Second statement, 3237 Corporal S.H. BARR, 59th Bn (patient, 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford, England), 5 December 1916: 'Witness states that he was close to the above in a charge wich (sic) took place in (sic) July 19th at Fleurbaix about 7 p.m. He saw him fall badly hit, and he believes killed, but cannot swear to this, when they had gone about 30 yards over the parapet.'

Third statement, 2590 Sergeant W.J.V. JUDD, 5th Pioneer Bn (late 59th Bn), 12 June 1917: 'This man and I were together in D. Coy in the big attack on July 19th, 1916 at Fleurbaix. He was killed between the lines in No Man's Land on that date. He was seriously wounded in the head and chest. I saw him fall amongst the dead. We had to let him remain there, enemy fire was so fierce that we could not bring him back to our lines. The ground was not held.'

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, GRUMONT Charles Albert
Red Cross file 1230214

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