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Charles Alexander PARKER

Regimental number1579
Date of birth17 April 1890
Place of birthPort Adelaide, South Australia
SchoolMarist Brothers Catholic College, Adelaide, South Australia
ReligionRoman Catholic
OccupationLabourer
AddressGlanville Hotel, Glanville, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation25
Next of kinMother, Mrs C West, Glanville Hotel, Glanville, South Australia
Enlistment date9 December 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name10th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/27/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic on 19 February 1915
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll10th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 8 October 1917
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialHooge Crater Cemetery (Plot XIV, Row F, Grave No. 4), Zillebeke, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
60
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Charles PARKER and Christina WEST (formerly PARKER), Glanville Hotel, Glanville, South Australia. Native of Port Adelaide. Commemorated in Cheltenham Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia. Inscription on headstone reads: 'An Anzac'.~
Other detailsWar service: Egypt, Gallipoli, France, Belgium. Killed in action at Passchendaele, Belgium, 8 October 1917.

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