Fallen ANZACs,
Territory ANZACs,
First World War, 1914-1918,
Place of birth
Brunswick (Vic.),
Place of enlistment
Melbourne (Vic.),
Date of enlistment
1915-03-15,
Age
26,
Occupation
Mechanical Engineer,
Service
Australian Imperial Force,
Unit
22nd Battalion, C Company,
Rank
Second Lieutenant,
Service number
724,
Next of kin
John Lincoln Yeadon and Elizabeth Yeadon - Parents ; 71 Blair Street, Moreland, Vic.,
Date of death
1916-08-05,
Place of death
Pozieres (France),
Place of burial
Serre Road No. 2 Cemetery (France),
Memorial
Darwin Cenotaph,
Honours and awards
Military Cross,
Biographical notes
Charles Yeadon was employed as a mechanic in the Railway Service at Darwin and was a member of the Darwin Workers' Amusement Club. His father, John Lincoln Yeadon, worked at the Darwin Botanic Gardens and at the Government Experimental Gardens where he demonstrated that many vegetables grown in temperate climates could also be grown in the Northern Territory.,
History
Two years service as a Private with the Victoria Scottish Rifles prior to enlistment. Embarked Melbourne HMAT 'Ulysses' 18 May 1915. Promoted: Sergeant, 19 August 1915; Warrant Officer Class 2, 18 March 1916; CSM Vice Tapner, 25 March 1916; Second Lieutenant, 2 August 1916. Killed 5 August 1916 during a charge near the ridge at Pozieres.,
Subject
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3454335&I=1&SE=1,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1552376,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/23/39/,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1057923--1-.PDF,
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/DA09035,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067412/RCDIG1067412--22-.JPG,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3281435,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3282801,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12655930,
http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=8384,
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3285400,
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/610234/YEADON,%20CHARLES%20FREDERICK,
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3285400 ["Reported killed", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 30 August 1917: p.10.],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3282801 ["One of the tragedies of this war", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 4 January 1917: p.19.],
http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/DA09035 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1538255/ [Honours and Awards],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067412/RCDIG1067412--22-.JPG [Embarkation Roll - HMAT 'Ulysses'],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/23/39/ [Unit War Diary],
http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/placenames/view.jsp?id=8384 [NT Place Names Register : Yeadon Circuit],
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3454335&I=1&SE=1 [Service Record],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3281435 ["Our Boys at the Front", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 7 September 1916: p.7.],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1057923--1-.PDF [Red Cross Wounded and Missing],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1552376 [Nominal Roll],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/12655930 [With the Twenty-Second : A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, A.I.F. by E. Gorman. Melbourne : H.H. Champion, 1919.],
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/610234/YEADON,%20CHARLES%20FREDERICK [Commonwealth War Graves - Serre Road Cemetery No.2 - Charles Frederick Yeadon],