Charles Edward Russell

Service Number
923
Unit
40th Bn
Date of Enlistment
31/03/1916
Date of Return
06/04/1921
Date of Discharge
11/09/1919
Date of Death
28/09/1950
Service Story

In March 1916 Charles Russell was a 39 year old married man working as a motorman and living with his Elsie and family of 6 children in Tamar Street, Launceston. His first wife had died in childbirth in 1900. On enlistment he was allotted to D Company, 40th Battalion and departed Tasmania on the Berrima with the first contingent of the battalion. Apart from an offence committed in March 1919 when back in England and being given leave, Private Russell seems to have managed to remain healthy and not to be wounded in action. He returned to Australia in April 1919. He later became a tram conductor. Charles and Elsie had two more children after his return from active service.

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Cemetery
Carr Villa Launceston
Burial Reference
C4-362