TIVER, Charles Price
| Service Number: | 14625 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 December 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Aberdeen, South Australia, 31 August 1895 |
| Home Town: | Unley, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Hallett Public School, Adelaide High School and Adelaide University |
| Occupation: | Forestry student |
| Died: | Died of wounds (shell), France, 22 August 1918, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery VII D 9, Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Adelaide High School Honour Board, Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide University of Adelaide WW1 Honour Roll, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Burra District WW1 Honor Roll, Burra Fallen Soldiers Memorial, Parkside Epworth Uniting Church Honour Roll, Unley Arch of Remembrance, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 14625, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 12 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 14625, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 12 Aug 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 14625, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide | |
| 10 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 11th Machine Gun Company | |
| 22 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 14625, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days" |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Cheryl Hutchins
Originally buried at Vaux-sur-Somme Communal Cemetery. Later exhumed and reburied at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, France
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY.
Private CHARLES P. TIVER, who died of wounds in France in August 22, 1918, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. G. Tiver, of Parkside. He was a student at the Adelaide University when he enlisted in December, 1915. He left South Australia on Sugust 12, 1916, with the A.M.C. in a transport, which was afterwards torpedoed and sunk. Just before reaching England two cases of meningitis broke out among the men. Private Tiver and another member of the A.M.C. (Mr. Giles) were isolated with the two patients mid put ashore at Devonport on September 30, and sent to No 4 Southern General Hospital. He left then by train and overtook his regiment on Salisbury Plains, where he remained until November 23, 1916. He went to France with the 11th Machine Gun Company as gunner. He was in France a year and nine months, and took part in many big engagements, including Porieres, Ypres, and Messines. He was wounded in October, 1917. He was horn at Aberdeen on August 31, 1895, and was a member of the Parkside Methodist Church and a teacher in the Sunday-school. His elder brother, Lieutenant S. J. Tiver, is with the 13rd Battalion in France.
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