
PADE, Charles William Victor
Service Numbers: | 4549, 4549A |
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Enlisted: | 14 September 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Hahndorf, South Australia, 3 October 1884 |
Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
Schooling: | North Broken Hill Public School |
Occupation: | Labourer/Pipe Fitter |
Died: | Killed in Action, Hazelbrouck, France, 30 May 1918, aged 33 years |
Cemetery: |
La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck Plot I, Row D, Grave No. 17 |
Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broken Hill Barrier District No 12 M.U.I.O.O.F. Great War Roll of Honor, Broken Hill Barrier District Roll of Honour, Broken Hill War Memorial, Kingscote Kangaroo Island WW1 Roll of Honour, Penneshaw Kangaroo Island Men Roll of Honor WW1, Penneshaw War Memorial, Waratah Memorial Gates |
Biography
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954) Thu 14 Dec 1916
IN BROKEN HILL.
PRIVATE C. V. PADE WOUNDED.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Pade, of Lane street, were this morning notified by telegram by the officer in charge of Base Records that their son, Private Charles Victor Pade, had been wounded in France. Private Pade enlisted at the latter end of last year, and sailed on February 7, 1916. Immediately prior to enlisting he was working on Kangaroo Island, he having left Broken Hill in search of work. While in Broken Hill he was working at the Proprietary mine. Private Pade was well known in football circles as "Vic."
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