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Personal data

• Name JOHNSON
• Initials CRB
• First name CHARLES ROYCE BATTERSBY
• Place of birth Birkenhead
• Country South Australia, Australia
• Family Son of John and Ada Elizabeth Johnson, of Victoria Rd., Birkenhead, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia on 8 November 1915
• Service number 4458
• Rank Fitter
• Medals M M
• Regiment and unit 3rd Light Railway Operating Coy. Australian Engineers
• National force A.I.F.
• Attached or transferred from 27 - Bn. -
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Adelaide on 25 March 1916; to France on 14 October 1916; gonorrhoea, admitted on 1 June 1917; back to unit on 11 July 1917; awarded military medal on 7 April 1918

Death

• Wounded Pacific Farm, Poperinge, a shell fell on the camp
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 22 April 1918
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - GG - 4

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