S13040
ALLDER, Charles Frederick
| Service Numbers: | 2823, S213298 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 May 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Army Training Units |
| Born: | Bowden, SA, 4 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Injuries, Woodside, SA, Australia, 21 April 1943, aged 49 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Commonwealth War Graves Path 7, Grave 11, Centennial Park Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Memorials: | Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hindmarsh Brompton Methodist Church Honor Roll, Hindmarsh Star of Freedom Tent No 4 IOOR WW1 Roll of Honor, Hindmarsh WW1 Roll of Honour Heroes of the Great War, S.A.R. Engineering Branch Midland System Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Apr 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 2823, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 4 Apr 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 2823, Mining Corps, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Sapper, 2823 |
World War 2 Service
| 4 May 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, S213298 | |
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| 4 May 1940: | Enlisted Private, S213298, Cheltenham, SA | |
| 4 May 1940: | Involvement Corporal, S213298, Army Training Units, Homeland Defence - Militia and non deployed forces | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Wounded 2823 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
UNUSUAL ACCIDENT.
Soldier's Death in Adelaide.
ADELAIDE, May 14.-Charged with having committed a civil offence, namely, ninslaughter, in that he killed Cpl Charles Frederick Allder at an Army training camp on April 21, Cpl Charles Herbert Martin, of an Army training camp, appeared before a general court martial in Adelaide today. Martin pleaded not guilty and the court found him not guilty. The prosecuting officer said that there was no suggestion that Martin intended to cause anyone any harm but it was claimed that he had been guilty of negligence. Martin, a qualified armourer, was working on a tifle in a vice. The rifle was point ing over the beds of certain person nel. About 5.30 pm Allder and others entered the hut. Martin called the attention of a sergeant to the rifle, saying that there was an obstruction in it and that he had broken two armourer's bits trying to get it out. He then took a cartridge from which the bullet had been removed, put it in the breach and called out to Allder "You had better move" in a jocular manner. Martin then pulled the trigger as Allder was moving from a bed in answer to Martin's warning. A piece of a bit struck him, causing his death.
Soldier Acquitted
Corporal Charles Herbert Martin, armorer, was acquitted of the
manslaughter of Corporal Charles Frederick Allder by a general court-martial at Adelaide yesterday.
Allder died at a military camp after he was struck in the abdomen by an obstruction which Martin cleared from a rifle when blowing it out with a blank cartridge.
Evidence was given by Martin that he called a warning before firing, and thought Allder had moved out of the way.
Biography
23 May 1931 marred Ellen Jackson in the Maughan Church, Adelaide
Place of residence at time of death was Bowden
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