Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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Baring, Charles Alexander

Charles Baring was born 11^th January1893, the son of Rev. Francis Henry and Amy Baring, of ‘Marchdyke’, Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire. He was born at King’s Worthy, Hampshire. His father was listed as a Rector in Suffolk in 1896. His brothers 2^nd Lt Cecil Christopher, 2^nd Lt Reginald Arthur and Lance Corporal Ernest (No 1756) also lost their lives serving their country and are remembered on the Sudbury War Memorial.

He enlisted at Triabunna, Tasmania, Australia was a farmer who had spent 3 years at the Hawkesbury College of Agriculture and departed Melbourne 29^th March 1916 aboard RMS Orontes with the 12^th Infantry Battalion.

He was serving with the 52^nd Battalion when he was posted as missing. A Court of Enquiry dated 24^th April 1917 found he was killed in action on 4th September 1916 at Moquet Farm aged 23. There is no known grave and he is remembered on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France.

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