Charleston Honour Roll

Compiled by Beth Busby, September 2022

Boer War 1899-1902

DUNN, Lionel William Garie

Born 15 July 1874, Charleston
Occupation: stock salesman
Enlisted 1 Oct 1899, Service #90
Trooper, 4th Imperial Bushman, Australian Imperial Forces, served 1 1⁄2 years
Invalided to Australia 17 Dec 1900, died Myrtle Bank, 5 Feb 1951, aged 78 years
World War 1 1914-1918 (AIF)
BELL, Clive Bentley

Born 25 January 1894, Mount Torrens
Occupation: labourer
Enlisted 4 October 1916, Service #3110,
returned to Australia 15 May 1919
Private, 3rd Light Horse Regiment
Died Mount Torrens, 28 July 1954, aged 60 years
BOERTH, Walter Clifford

Born 21 February 1897, Lobethal
Occupation: miner
Enlisted 1 February 1916, aged 18 1⁄2, Service #4382
Private, 2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion
Returned to Australia 20 May 1919, died South Australia, 29 January 1976, aged 78 years
Buried in Charleston Cemetery
BROOK, A
BUCKLEY, EW
DUNN, Laura Amelia

Born 3 July 1883, Charleston (lived in Woodside)
Daughter of George Dunn and Eliza Jane nee Disher, sister of Lionel William Garie (below)
Nurse, volunteered 13 November 1917, appointed 4 March 1918, discharge date unknown
Died 20 June 1965 of multiple injuries in Adelaide, aged 83 years
Cremated at Centennial Park Cemetery
DUNN, Lionel William Garie

Details as per Boer War above
Enlisted 20 May 1918, aged 43 years 10 months
HARRISON, Athol Robert

Born: Charleston
Occupation: labourer
Enlisted 28 January 1915, Service #586, aged 21 years
Private, 27th Infantry Battalion
HARRISON, JJ

HOWARD, JM

KEEN, Frank

Born 19 April 1895, Lobethal
Occupation: farmer
Enlisted 19 December 1915, Service #2331, discharged 27 February 1918
Trooper, 3rd Light Horse Regiment
Died Meadows, 27 January 1959, aged 63 years
LATHAM, William

Born July 1891, Charleston
Occupation: farmer
Enlisted 21 August 1916, Service #2947 & 2949, discharged 19 March 1919
Private, 50th Infantry Battalion
NEWMAN, Archibald Carmichael

Born 1890, Lucindale (home town: Charleston)
Occupation: dairy farmer
Enlisted 26 November 1914, Service #726, discharged 9 July 1919
Shoeing Smith / Trooper, 9th Light Horse Regiment
Died of natural causes in 1965, aged 75 years
Buried in Charleston Cemetery
Biography contributed by Robert Wight and sourced from vwma.org.au
South Australian born dairy farmer, Archibald Carmichael Newman (Arch), was born in 1880 and brought up in a family
of seven sons and seven daughters in the rural town of Charleston in the Adelaide Hills on the Onkaparinga River.
The family were respected pioneers of the district, being amongst the first to take up land there in 1837. They were known for their industry and enterprise in agriculture growing record crops, establishing lucrative dairy operations and exhibiting award winning horsemanship.
Aged 24, Arch enlisted with the AIF in November 1914, serving in the 9LHR.
After initial training in Melbourne he left on the transport HMAT "Surada" on 6th February 1915 with 59 military personnel, en route to Fremantle. At Fremantle the "Surada" took on additional troops and their mounts, embarking from there on 17th February 1915 with 205 men and 230 horses.
After further training in Egypt, the light horse regiments were not deployed as a mounted formation at Gallipoli, but rather were attached as reinforcements to the infantry divisions, given the extensive casualties of the Gallipoli landings. Arch landed at Gallipoli late in May 1915.
Whilst it may have been fortuitous that the 9LHR was the reserve regiment for the brigade’s disastrous attack at the Nek, it suffered extensive casualties at Hill 60 almost three weeks later. At only 50 percent strength it continued in a defensive role on the peninsula until evacuation on 19 December 1915.
9LHR returned to Egypt to rejoin the brigade which had become part of the ANZAC Mounted Division, instrumental in its defence of the Suez Canal and driving the Turks back across the Sinai Desert.
Arch did not come away from the war unscathed. He was wounded during the course of the campaign in Palestine, and also affected by shell shock, however he remained in service until his return to Australia in 1919.
After the war Arch returned to dairy farming, also practicing as a Justice of the Peace on the local court circuit.
Arch died in 1965 aged 75 and he rests in the Charleston Cemetery, SA.
NEWMAN, Harold Clive

Born 8 June 1896, Lucindale (grew up in Charleston;
home town: Canberra)
Occupation: postal clerk / public servant
Enlisted 27 November 1914, Service #727,
discharged 1 October 1917 (medically unfit)
Sergeant, 9th Light Horse Regiment
Died of natural causes Canberra, 11 December 1983, aged 87 years
Buried in Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
Biography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge and sourced from vwma.org.au
In 1910 his civilian career started as a messenger boy with the Post Master General's Department
(Post Office) in South Australia.
Following his war service in 1919 he was appointed accountant and cheif clerk of the Department of Works. In 1939 he had risen to be the Chief finance officer in the Treasury's Defence Division.
He moved in 1942 to Public service inspector in Western Australia before transferring, in 1947, to Melbourne in the Defence Division Head of Treasury.
In 1955 Clive was appointed Auditor General of the Commonwealth, he retired 1961.
Clive was a National Trustee of the returned services League from 1955 until his death in 1983. He lent prestige to the office and to the National Headquarters.
Clive was awarded a CBE in 1960.
TEAKLE, Alex Sydney

Born 1894, Woodside
Occupation: labourer
Enlisted 5 January 1916, Service #396
Lance Corporal, 43rd Infantry Battalion
Died 3 October 1967, aged 75 years
Buried in Charleston Cemetery
World War 2 1939-1945
ANDREW, Herbert Maxwell

Born 23 April 1922, Adelaide
Enlisted 28 March 1942, Service #417261, discharged 5 February 1946
Flight Lieutenant, Royal Australian Air Force
Died 23 April 2012, aged 90 years

AYRES, Jack

Born 11 January 1924, Adelaide
Enlisted 28 March 1942, Service #417289, discharged 11 September 1945
Flying Officer, Royal Australian Air Force
BELL, Alan Charles

Born 15 October 1912, Charleston
Occupation: farmer
Enlisted 25 June 1940, Service # SX6815
Corporal, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Killed in action, Egypt, 30 August 1942, aged 29 years
Buried in El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt
BELL, Edgar George

Born 5 May 1917, Murray Bridge (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 24 August 1942, Service #SX22879 & S17641, discharged 10 October 1945
Private, 10th/48th Infantry Battalion, Australian Military Forces
BOWEN, Percy (Pete) Hopkin

Born 12 September 1917, Kensington (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 19 February 1940, Service #SX1751
Occupation: cheese maker
Corporal, 2nd/10th Australian Infantry Battalion
Killed in action by sniper 26 December 1942, Buna, Papua New Guinea aged 25 years
Buried in Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
BOWEN, William (Bill) Loxton

Born 15 September 1921, Mannum (home town: Charleston), brother of Percy Hopkin Bowen
Enlisted 12 January 1942, Service #SX16235, discharged 3 December 1945
Occupation: dairy farmer – worked on uncle Donald Charles Bell’s dairy farm on Newman Rd
Trooper, 2nd/9th Armoured Regiment
Died of natural causes 19 November 1994, Belair, aged 73 years
Buried in Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
CARTER, Donald Sydney

Born 17 January 1927, Lobethal (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 19 May 1945, Service #R39573, discharged 21 November 1956
Leading Seaman, Royal Australian Navy
DUNN, George Wardlaw

Born 29 April 1911, Charleston – brother of John Mackinnon
Occupation: farm manager
Enlisted 13 July 1942, Service #SX26106, discharged 10 August 1943
Bombadier, 48th Field Battery, Australian Army
Died 3 December 1986, aged 75 years
Buried in Charleston Cemetery

DUNN, John Mackinnon

Born 6 Feb 1917, Charleston – brother of George Wardlaw
Enlisted 2 July 1940, Service #SX7619
Lance Corporal, 2nd/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Died of illness from malnutrition (Prisoner of War) 14 September 1944, Japan, aged 27 years
Buried in Yokohama War Cemetery, Kanto, Japan
FECHNER, George William

Born 20 April 1923, Lobethal (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 9 October 1941, Service #S51461, discharged 3 August 1944
Driver, 48th Battalion
HUGHES, Richard Andrew

Born 12 February 1925, Woodside
Enlisted 25 August 1943, Service #141125, discharged 12 April 1946
Sergeant, 4 Personnel Depot, Royal Australian Air Force
MARSHALL, Alfred William

Born 20 August 1917, Lobethal (home town: Nairne)
Enlisted 24 September 1940, Service #S17691, discharged 13 June 1945
Corporal, Australian Military Forces
MARSHALL, Lawrence Roy

Born 18 February 1921, Lobethal (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 10 March 1945, Service #SX38745 (S36626), discharged 5 April 1946
Private, Driver, 73 Transport Platoon, Australian Military Forces
MARSHALL, Lenard John

Born 5 Feb 1919, Charleston
Enlisted 4 July 1942, Service #SX23037 (S17586), discharged 20 January 1946
Private, 27th Australian Infantry Battalion
MIEGLICH, Clifford Walter

Born 27 December 1917, Ambleside (Hahndorf – home town: Lobethal)
Enlisted 16 March 1944, Service #SX39680 (S17690), discharged 3 May 1946
Private, 8 Docks Operating Company
MIEGLICH, Percival Lindsay

Born 27 December 1917, Ambleside (Hahndorf – home town: Lobethal)
Enlisted 21 September 1944, Service #SX38600 (S17692), discharged 24 April 1946
Private, 27 Australian Infantry Battalion
MIEGLICH, Reginald Maxwell

Born 25 October 1921, Lobethal (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 27 October 1944, Service #SX38610 (S51499), discharged 9 July 1946
Private, 110 Light Anti Aircraft Regiment
MUSTER, David Rudolph
Born 27 May 1917, Ambleside (Hahndorf – home town: Cromer)

Enlisted 9 March 1943, Service #SX29060 & S17689, discharged 20 January 1944
Private, Australian Military Forces
PAELCHEM, Stanley

Born 23 April 1919, Lobethal
Enlisted 26 July 1941, Service #SX13846, discharged 20 October 1942
Private, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
PFEIFFER, Clifford Alan

Born 16 April 1916, Charleston
Occupation: dairy farmer
Enlisted 23 September 1940, Service #S51632, discharged 21 September 1945
Sapper, 7 Docks Operating Company, Australian Army
POPE, GG brit POPE, HJ army POYNER, AE
SCHUBERT, CA – Clement Arthur or Cyril Angus? SCHUBERT, Clement Arthur

Born 14 November 1911, Lobethal
Enlisted 4 June 1940, Service #26656, discharged 11 January 1945
Corporal, 7 Airfield Construction Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force
SCHUBERT, Cyril Angus

Born 5 March 1921, Mount Torrens
Enlisted 13 July 1942, Service #SX20418 & S36640, discharged 18 October 1944
Sergeant, General / Motor Transport Company, Australian Military Forces
SCHUBERT, Lenard Lance

Born 19 January 1923, Lobethal
Enlisted 29 March 1943, Service #SX19300, discharged 24 December 1944
Private, Australian Military Forces
SCHUBERT, Walter Clement

Born 3 June 1918, Lobethal
Occupation: gardener
Enlisted 23 September 1940, Service #S17625, discharged 26 May 1944
Private, 32 Australian Infantry Training Battalion
SCHUBERT, Walter Conrad

Born 3 November 1917, Hahndorf (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 7 December 1940, Service #S17753, discharged 11 January 1946
Corporal, Royal Australian Air Force
SIMPSON, JW
STANBURY, Stanley Walter

Born 6 November 1913, Mount Torrens (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 29 August 1942, Service #SX24352 (S51575), discharged 2 October 1945
Private, 101 Australian Anti Aircraft Regiment, Australian Army
Korean War 1950-1953
LEWIS, Leslie William

Born 19 December 1927, Tweedvale (Lobethal)
Service #12723
Private, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
Vietnam War 1962-1973
BAAYENS, HB
LOWE, Melvin Eric (?)

Born 12 June 1945, Gawler
Service #4718185
Private, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
Additional locals that served but are not listed on the honour roll:
BELL, Roy James

Born 18 December 1899, Charleston
Enlisted 27 June 1942, Service #S80538, discharged 24 October 1945
Private
BUCKLEY, Leslie Arthur

Born 31 July 1909, Charleston
Enlisted 5 April 1943, Service #S85102
Private, 4 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps
CAMENS, Bernard Gustave

Born 6 September 1919, Pinnaroo (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 24 September 1940, Service #S14833, discharged 18 February 1944
Private, Australian Military Forces
CARTER, George Donald

Born 28 June 1920, Lobethal (home town: Gumeracha)
Occupation: farm labourer
Enlisted 10 April 1942, Service #S76784
Private, 2nd Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps
CLARKE, Kenneth Sulzmann

Born 14 July 1905, Corryton (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 18 April 1942, Service #S76725, discharged 15 October 1945
Private, Australian Military Forces
DAVIDS, Malcolm James

Born 28 October 1921, Lobethal (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 9 January 1943, Service #SX27918 & S37368, discharged 2 April 1946
Private, Australian Military Forces
DUNN, David Malcolm

Born 12 August 1923, Charleston
Enlisted 27 June 1942, Service #S80539, discharged 15 October 1945
Private, Australian Military Forces
FISHLOCK, Stanley Jack

Born 24 October 1909, Charleston
Enlisted 27 June 1942, Service #S80540, discharged 15 October 1945
Private, Australian Military Forces
HARRISON, Allan Thomas

Born 20 February 1914, Angaston (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 4 March 1941, Service #S11681
JAMES, Ruth Mathews

Born 31 May 1917, Adelaide (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 30 October 1944, Service #SFX35503, discharged 15 May 1946
Private, General Hospitals, Australian Military Forces
POPE, William Ernest

Born 12 November 1878, Charleston (home town: West Croydon)
Enlisted 25 June 1940, Service #S8, discharged 8 December 1940
Lieutenant, 2 Infantry Training Depot, Australian Army
SCHUBERT, Eric Norman

Born 22 May 1915, Mount Torrens (home town: Charleston)
Enlisted 17 January 1942, Service #S51670, discharged 1 February 1944
Private, General / Motor Transport Company, Australian Military Forces
SCHUBERT, Leslie Ronald