Charles Norman CALLCOTT

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CALLCOTT, Charles Norman

Service Number:	52
Enlisted:	21 January 1916, Armidale
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	33rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 15 September 1897
Home Town:	Tamworth, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Junior Porter
Died:	Killed in Action, Near Warfusee, France, 8 August 1918, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery XII. B. 10., Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Tamworth ANZAC Park Memorial Gates, Tamworth Public School WW1 Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

21 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 52, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Armidale
4 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 52, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: ''
4 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 52, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney
8 Jul 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 33rd Infantry Battalion
29 Sep 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 52, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Near Zonnebeke, GSW both thighs and groin (severe).
8 Aug 1918:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 52, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 52 awm_unit: 33rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-08-08

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Charles Norman CALLCOTT, (Service Number 52) was born in Tamworth in 1897. He joined the NSWGR in January 1914 as a junior porter at Werris Creek. In June 1914 his left arm was dislocated ‘while frollicking [sic] on duty with junior porter Jones, sick pay not approved.’ In July 1915 he was transferred to West Tamworth, and in February 1916 he was given military leave and enlisted in the AIF at Armidale.
He embarked from Sydney in May 1916 and landed in England in July. He was sent to France in November. In September 1917 he was wounded in action, and spent nine months in England. He returned to France in July 1918. On 8 August he was killed in action at Villers-Bretonneux and was buried in the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery (Australian Memorial Cemetery)

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