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1013 6th Battalion, Australian Infantry, (Australian Imperial Force)
William Carter, known as Charles was born in Sudbury in 1895. In 1911 Charles was living with his grandparents Charles and Mary Ann White at 18 Inkerman Row. His grandfather was a silk weaver and Charles was employed as an errand boy.
According to his Australian Army Records he enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria on 17 August 1914 and he gave his next of kin as his grandmother Mary White and his previous employment as a groom.
His record shows that prior to enlisting he had served with the ‘Army Reserve Corps’ for 16 months.
It is not known exactly what happened to Charles as on his Army Records he was discharged on 27 August 1914 as medically unfit. An addition has been written in red on his service record stating that he died prior to leaving Australia. There is a death registered in Victoria in 1915 for a William Charles Carter.
Charles is remembered on the Sudbury War Memorial.
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