Gilbert, Charles, Private, 2184, 21st Bn, Australian Infantry
Died 24th December 1916
Aged 32
Son of Joseph and Ellen Ann Gilbert; husband of M. J. Gilbert, of 3, Blocks and Buildings, Castle Hall, Stalybridge, England. Native of Guernsey, Channel Isles
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Circular:
Town chiefly connected: Rupanyup, Victoria
Born Guernsey Castle, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Killed in action at Goudecourt (sic)
Employed as a teamsman and farmer
Attended a Church of England School
Arrived in Australia at the age of 29
Had served in the Territorials in England

Additional information from Service record, National Archives of Australia:
Enlisted Melbourne, Victoria, 5th July 1915
Employed as an agricultural labourer, and had formerly been apprenticed to a shoeing smith in England
Next of kin, his wife, Mary Jane, who was residing at 28, Conduit Street, Tintwistle, then later at 73, Higher Waterside, Hadfield
5 foot 6½ in height, 11 stone 4lbs in weight, Dark complexion, Brown eyes, Black hair, Religion Anglican
Taken on strength of 21st Battalion at Tel el Kebir, 7th January 1916
Disembarked Marseilles 26th March 1916
Treated in hospital, France, for gastric catarrh, 16th - 25th August 1916
Killed in action 24th December 1916

1911 Census:
Charles Gilbert was a 26 year old carter, residing in Crowden, near Hadfield. He was the husband of Mary Jane Gilbert, aged 27, and the father of Maud (5) and Ivy (1).

Commemorated on the memorial at: Tintwistle.

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