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| metadata.territoryanzacs.dc.title: | Charles Yeadon |
| Name: | Yeadon, Charles Frederick |
| Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Service Number: | 724 |
| Place of Birth: | Brunswick (Vic.) |
| Next of Kin: | John Lincoln Yeadon and Elizabeth Yeadon - Parents ; 71 Blair Street, Moreland, Vic. |
| 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. |
| Occupation: | Mechanical Engineer |
| Date of Enlistment: | 15-Mar-1915 |
| Age at Enlistment: | 26 |
| Place of Enlistment: | Melbourne (Vic.) |
| Unit: | 22nd Battalion, C Company |
| Service: | Australian Imperial Force |
| Date of Death: | 1916-08-05 |
| Place of Death: | Pozieres (France) |
| Place of Burial: | Serre Road No. 2 Cemetery (France) |
| Memorials: | Darwin Cenotaph |
| Honours and Awards: | Military Cross |
| Service 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. |
| Related link: | "Reported killed", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 30 August 1917: p.10. "One of the tragedies of this war", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 4 January 1917: p.19. Australian War Memorial : Photograph Honours and Awards Embarkation Roll - HMAT 'Ulysses' Unit War Diary NT Place Names Register : Yeadon Circuit Service Record "Our Boys at the Front", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 7 September 1916: p.7. Red Cross Wounded and Missing Nominal Roll With the Twenty-Second : A History of the Twenty-Second Battalion, A.I.F. by E. Gorman. Melbourne : H.H. Champion, 1919. Commonwealth War Graves - Serre Road Cemetery No.2 - Charles Frederick Yeadon |
| metadata.territoryanzacs.dc.subject.*: | ANZAC Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps -- History World War, 1914-1918 -- Northern Territory |
| metadata.territoryanzacs.dc.identifier.uri: | http://hdl.handle.net/10070/214511 |
| Appears in Collections: | Fallen ANZACs |
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