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Challen, William Augustus

Born 11^th August 1891 Hildenborough Kent England the son of George and Blanch Margeretta Challen (nee Blaxall) he emigrated to Tasmania in 1914 and was employed as a footman on the staff of the Governor General of Tasmania the Rt Hon Sir William Ellison-Macartney KCMG.  He embarked Melbourne 24^th October 1915 on board RMS Orontes with the 12^th Infantry Battalion with the rank of Acting Corporal.  He was appointed Lance Corporal 26^th July 1916.

He was killed in action 19^th August 1916 at Moquet Farm France when he was hit in the head by a sniper’s bullet and was buried where he fell.   He is commemorated in the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux

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