Just Another Pair Of Socks

Melton District ANZACS

Charles Neville SAUNDERS

Personal

Born: 1 December, 1893

Birth registration: Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration No. 32944

Birthplace: Shepparton

Parents: John William Coldstream Saunders (1864-1921)
Elizabeth Phillips (1870-1953)

Died: June, 1981

Awards and Honours

  • 1914-1915 Star
  • British War Medal 1914-20
  • Victory Medal

Battalions

4th reinforcements, 5th Battalion9th reinforcements, 57th Battalion

Events

Enlistment

Regimental Service Number: 1813 / 3467

Enlistment date: 10 September, 1914 Tungamah, Victoria

Age at enlistment: 21 years

Address at enlistment: Cavendish, via Hamilton, Victoria

Religion: Methodist

Marital Status: Single

Next of kin: Father: Mr John Saunders, P.O. Cavendish, via Hamilton, Victoria
Mother: Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders, Bulart, Victoria

Physical Description: Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Weight: 166 pounds
Complexion: Dark
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Dark Brown
Distinctive marks: 3 x vaccination left arm; 2 scars right leg; 1 scar between shoulders; 1 scar left heel

Embarkation ship: 1. ? 2. HMAT A 29 Suevic.

Rank: Lance Corporal (1813); Corporal (3464)

Return Date: 12 November, 1916

Return Vessel: 1. H.T. Wiltshire2. Field Marshall.

Arrival at Australia: 31 December, 1916.

Discharge Date: 18 March, 1917

War Service Summary

19/12/1914 - Enlisted; first time
14/04/1915 - Embarked for duty; to Middle East
22/05/1915 - Embarked for Dardanelles
26/05/1915 - Taken on strength and reverts to rank of private
14/08/915 - Wounded in Action; Gallipoli; Gun Shot Wound right thigh, severe; Transferred to Mudroe, Lemnos
15/08/1915 - Admitted No. 3 Field Ambulance Divisional Coll. Station
16/08/1915 - Transferred; H.S. Scotian
25/08/1915 - British Red Cross Convalescent Hospital; Alexandria
19/09/1915 - Transferred to Montazah Convalescent Hospital
03/11/1915 - Embarked for Dardanelles
09/11/1915 - Rejoined Battalion; Lemnos
07/01/1916 - Embarked from Lemnos; Disembarked Alexandria; HMT Empress of Britain
09/01/1916 - To Field Ambulance, tonsillitis; Tel-el-Kebir
13/01/1916 - Rejoined unit
25/03/1916 - Embarked from Alexandria to join British Expeditionary Forces
30/03/1916 - Disembarked Marseilles
23/05/1916 - Wounded in Action; second occasion; Bomb wound to the head; Admitted No. 2 Field Ambulance
24/05/1916 - To Divisional Rest Station
29/05/1916 - Rejoined Unit
25/07/1916 - Wounded in Action; third occasion; Gun Shot Wounds to leg/foot
29/07/1916 - Embarked Rouen for hospital in England
30/07/1916 - Admitted Western General Hospital, Newport; Bomb wound, right leg
14/09/1916 - At No. 1 Australian Auxilliary Hospital, Harefield, Middlesex
12/11/1916 - Returned to Australia from Portland aboard H.T. Wiltshire for discharge Bomb would head, right leg
31/12/1916 - To Australia
18/03/1917 - Discharged; medically unfit
27/03/1917 - Re-enlisted A.I.F.; Corporal
21/06/1917 - Embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT A 29 Suevic
22/08/1917 - Offence; Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline: Award - Admonishment
26/08/1917 - Disembarked at Liverpool; marched in to 15th Training battalion, Hurdcott
27/08/1917 - Sick; to hospital; tonsillitis
20/09/1917 - Marched in from hospital; 15th Training battalion
30/10/1917 - A.W.L.; returned
22/11/1917 - Sick; to Salisbury hospital
29/11/1917 - Letter to France re verification of statement
07/12/1917 - Letter to Tidworth re reversion from Corporal
09/01/1918 - From 15th Training battalion Weymouth to No. 2 Com. Depot, Codford
23/04/1918 - Returned to Australia per Field Marshall; left Durban
06/07/1918 - Discharged; medically unfit; Partial paralysis right leg and foot
26/08/1918 - Re-enlisted; Home Guard
10/09/1918 - Appointed corporal
25/09/1918 - Appointed Acting Sergeant
24/12/1918 - Discharged; demobilisation

World War 2 Service in A.I.F and C.M.F.:
V79562 Sergeant
15/07/1940 - 12/08/1940 - AIF
13/08/1940 - 23/06/1946 - CMF
New Guinea service:
27/08/1943-18/09/1944 and 14/11/1944-27/12/1945

Note:
World War One Service Record is interspersed with World War Two record.

War Service Commemerated

Life After the War

Names of wife & children:
06/12/1922 - Married Irene Gillies South Yarra (possibly)

Place/s of residence:
( from Electoral Roll)
1926 - North Mooroopna
1931 - 18 Stewart St., Shepparton (with Irene)
1949 - 113 Corio St., Shepparton (no Irene)
1954, 1963 - C/- Mrs T.N. Scott, Shepparton
1977, 1980 - Toolamba, 3614 (Electoral Roll)

Occupations:
1926, 1931, 1949, 1977, 1980 - Labourer
1940 - Lining Contractor
1954 - Contractor

Date of death:
June 1981 Reg. # 15384

Place of burial:

Sources

Australian War Memorial
Service Record