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Charles Henry JANES

Regimental number247
Place of birthHatternhoe nr Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England
SchoolCounty School Hatternhoe nr Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England
Other trainingUpholsterer and carpet planner
Age on arrival in Australia26
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationSalesman
Address50 West Street, Dunstable Bedsfordshire, England
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation27
Next of kinFather, Edwin Janes, 50 West Street, Dunstable, England
Enlistment date26 February 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name17th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/34/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A32 Themistocles on 12 May 1915
Rank from Nominal RollSergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll53rd Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularHe came from Aus in May 1915 to Egypt - went into the Dardanelles campaign served through that to the end of the campaign - left with the rest of them on the evacuation Suvla Bay - went back to Egypt and then transferred to France (one of the last to leave Suvla Bay).
FateKilled in Action 19 July 1916
Place of death or woundingFromelles, France
Age at death27
Age at death from cemetery records28
Place of burialRation Farm Military Cemetery (Plot VI, Row F, Grave No. 50), La Chapelle d'Armentieres, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
157
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Edwin and H. JANES, 112 West Street, Dunstable, England

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