Charles Louis MITCHENER

MITCHENER, Charles Louis

Service Number: 2636
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF
Born: Southampton, England, 1898
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: King Edward VI Grammar Southampton England
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
No known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

23 Jun 1915: Involvement Private, 2636, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: ''
23 Jun 1915: Embarked Private, 2636, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kanowna, Adelaide
25 Jun 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, 4th Division Heavy and Medium Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Came to Australia at 16 years of age.

To assist the British 62nd Division at 2nd Bullecourt the Medium Trench Mortars of the 4th Australian Division were to be emplaced facing that village to support the flank of the British attack. The crews with their mortars and ammunition were waiting on the railway embankment on that flank when, at 4.30am on 3 May 1917 a German shell exploded their ammunition destroying all the mortars and ammunition, killing Mitchener and 26 other men of the unit and wounding many others.

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