Charles Albert CLARK

Charles Albert CLARK. Private 1603, 19th Australian Infantry died 6th June 1916 aged 34. Son of Robert and Mary Ann Clark, of Thornbury, Gloucestershire.
Some notes from his Army Records held by the Australian National Archives.
He joined up on the 9th January 1915 at Perth, Western Australia aged 33 occupation, carpenter. He was born at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, his father Robert of St John Street, Thornbury Gloucestershire was his next of kin. On the 22nd February 1915 he embarked for Gallipoli, via England from Freemantle, Western Australia on H.M.A.T. A50, Itonus . On the 3rd May 1915 he was shot and seriously wounded in one of his shoulders at the Dardanelles. Invalided to 1st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham. He was discharged from hospital date not recorded, but his re-joined his unit at Tel-el-Kebir on the 9th March 1916. On the 3rd June 1916 he was admitted to 1st Australian Stationery Hospital suffering from gastric enteritis. At 1-5am on the 6th June 1916 at the same hospital he died of dysentery and was buried at Ismailia Cemetery. Reinterred into Ismailia War Memorial, Cemetery, Egypt. Commemorated on his parents memorial in Thornbury Cemetery, Kington Lane, Thornbury and is at rest in Ismailia War Cemetery Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.