akers, charles alfred
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Service Number 2516. Killed in Action 14th October 1917. Passchendale, Ypres, Belgium.TRANSCRIPT
Gosford District Casualties of World War One
Akers, Charles Alfred Service Number 2516
Killed in Action 14th October 1917 Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Gosford City Council gratefully acknowledges the voluntary efforts of
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And Vivienne Tranter
in compiling this resource
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NAME Akers, Charles Alfred
SERVICE NO 2516
UNIT 35th Battalion
RANK Private
AGE at Enlistment 29 yrs 9 mths
PLACE OF BIRTH Parish of Locksley, Victoria
ADDRESS Kulnura, via Gosford
OCCUPATION Orchardist
DATE OF ENLISTMENT 3.7.1916
PLACE OF ENLIST-MENT
Broadmeadow, Newcastle, NSW
PREVIOUS SERVICE
NEXT OF KIN Mother ;-Mary Ellen Akers, (Widow), “Woondooma” Kulnura, via Wyong
PHYSICAL DESCRIP-TION
Height;- 5’6½” Weight;- 164 lbs Chest Measurement, 36/39½, Complexion;- Fresh, Eyes;- Hazel, Hair;- Black
RELIGION Methodist
EMBARKED 25.10.1916, Sydney per the Ascanius,
DISEMBARKED 28.12.1916, Devonport
NOTES Reported missing 12 Oct 1917
WOUNDED/ILLNESS Killed by shell fire
DIED 12/13 Oct 1917;- Passchendaele Ridge, Ypres, Belgium.
BURIED (Re-Buried) Tyne Cot. British Cemetery, Passchendaele Plot 23 Row D Gve 17.
MEDALS British War Medal-51361, Victory Medal-50681. Memorial Plaque -341187.
DEPENDANTS
PERSONAL EFFECTS Fountain pen (damaged), metal cup, letters, cards, cap comforter, cuttings.
REMARKS Cousins: 3002 Private Joseph AKERS, 7th Battalion, killed in action, 4 October 1917; 3679 Corporal Mark AKERS, 46th Battalion, killed in action, 11 June 1917.
RED CROSS REPORT
Statement made by No 6634 Pte Sutton, 35th
Btn re L/Cpl Akers C A 35th
Btn
“I was alongside of the above named man when he was hit with a piece of shell. He was hit about 4 o’clock in the morning of the 13
th of October 1917,
and killed outright and one of the Scotsmen helped me to bury him and we made his grave as well as possible. He was buried on the top of the first ridge. I could point his grave out at any time without any mistake.” Dated 1
st Jan
1918. signed L R Sutton. Same informant stated on the 12.10.1917 “I saw him killed instantly by a shell at our first objective on the 12
th Oct. at Passchendale Ridge about noon”.
Informant;- Gnr J Patterson 1475 9th
L T M Battery, 3rd
A A Hospital Dart-ford. 26.3.1918
“I saw him killed at Ypres. He was caught by a shell, pieces of which hit him about the body, death being instantaneous, he was in a shell hole at the time. I knew him well, he was married to a relative of mine. He came from Wyong, where he was engaged in farming.”
NEWSPAPER REPORTS
WILL
CORRESPONDENCE Letter dated 24 Feb 1918 from Mary Akers, (Mother) requesting information, also mentioned cousin J W Akers no 3230 having been put into a bed at Ports-
mouth just vacated by Charles. Letter from Mary Akers, (Mother) asking for explanation of package received,
expressing grief at her only son being pressured into enlisting
GOSFORD TIMES 11.7.1918.
In the Will of CHARLES ALFRED AKERS, late of Kulnura near Wyong in the State of New South Wales Orchardist and of His Majesty’s Imperial Forces on active service deceased. – Application will be made after fourteen days from the publication hereof that Letters of Administration of the Estate of the above-named deceased with the Will of the deceased annexed may be granted to MARY ELLEN AKERS of Kulnura Widow the Mother of the said deceased and all notices may be served at and all claims should be sent to the office of the undersigned to whom creditors are requested to render their accounts within the same period – CHARLES KENDALL ADRIAN, Proctor for the Applicant, Gosford. By his Agents, Messrs SLY and RUSSELL, 369 George St Sydney.
GOSFORD TIMES 21.3.1918. Private C.A. Akers, recently posted as missing, is now officially
reported to have been killed in action in France. He was the
only son of Mrs Akers, of Kulnura.
GOSFORD TIMES 29.11.1917 Reported missing – Private C . A. Akers of Kulnura, Mangrove
Mt.
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