Charles Tripp

Submitted by Mt Kembla Minin... on Tue, 20/12/2016 - 12:01

First Name:

Charles

Last Name:

Tripp

Mother's Name:

Annie Tripp nee Harcombe

Father's Name:

Charles Tripp

Date Enlisted:

Monday, January 3, 1916

Rank at Enlistment:

Private

Rank at Discharge:

Private

Unit:

3rd Battalion

Service:

Infantry

Awards:

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Date of Death:

Friday, April 8, 1960

Details:

Charles Tripp (Service No 5192) was born in Bristol, England in September 1877. He married Hannah Fido in October 1901 and they had 2 children.

At enlistment Charles was 38 years old, worked as a miner, and lived at Corrimal, N.S.W.

He embarked from Sydney on SS Makarini with 16th Reinforcements, 3rd Battalion on 1st April 1916. The troops arrived in Egypt on 2nd May 1916 but Charles did not join the 3rd Battalion in France until 9th December 1916.

He saw service on the Western Front until he was wounded on 17th April 1917 while fighting near the Hindenburg Line and evacuated to hospital for treatment of a gun shot wound to his right thigh. He returned to his unit on 14th November 1917.

Charles was returned to Australia in June 1919 and discharged on 28th August 1919.

He returned to the mines after the war and in 1921 was in hospital in a very serious condition after a mine accident. Charles was injured again in 1930 when he suffered a broken leg in a rock fall.

He died in 1960.

Sources:

NAA: B2455, TRIPP CHARLES