DUNSTALL, Charles Guy
| Service Numbers: | 2673, 1803 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Stanley Flat, near Clare, 11 July 1869 |
| Home Town: | Narrogin, Narrogin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm labourer |
| Died: | Illness, Narrogin, W.A., 18 May 1936, aged 66 years |
| Cemetery: |
Narrogin Cemetery, Western Australia Church of England Cemetery, Narrogin W.A. |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 2673, 4th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
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World War 1 Service
| 19 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1803, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
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| 19 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1803, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Argyllshire, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Greg Sharon
Charles Guy Dunstall was born at Stanley Flat S.A. the second child of James & Annie Dunstall. Both parents died when he was still in his teens and little is known of his early life.
He enlisted in Adelaide to fight in the Boer War in February 1902. He served as a Private with the 4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse. At the time he was a bachelor living at Yorketown on the Yorke Peninsula and was working as a labourer.
He again enlisted on 26th January 1915 to fight in WWI. At this time he was at Narrogin W.A. where he had moved as his sister, Martha Florence who had married a local farmer William Hurst, was living there. He served at Gallipoli with the 16th Battalion. He was taken ill and eventually returned to Australia and was discharged on the 2nd of August 1916.
After WWI he worked in Narrogin for the Roads Board as a rabbit exterminator and also from time to time on the farm of his brother in-law, William Hurst, who had served with the 10th Light Horse.
He died at Narrogin on the 18th of May 1936 after a long illness and was buried the next day in the Church of England section of the Narrogin Cemetery.
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