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Charles Hugh Llewellyn WIGGER

Regimental number645
Place of birthQueenscliff, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationBaker
Address5 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation21
Next of kinElizabeth Wigger, 5 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Victoria
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date19 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name6th Battalion, F Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/23/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 19 October 1914
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll6th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 25 April 1915
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 27), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
48
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Charles and Eliza A WIGGER
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 646 Pte Reginald Charles Llewellyn WIGGER, 6th Bn, killed in action, 8 May 1915; 283 Sergeant Robert Branbin WIGGER, 22nd Bn, died of wounds, 5 August 1918.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 5 April 1915.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Mother granted war pension of 52 pounds per annum as from 11 August 1915.

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