Charles Roy BAUER

Charles Roy Bauer Photo:
State Library of Queensland
Birthplace
Clermont
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Boilermaker
Enlisted
18-April-1915
Place
Toowoomba
Age
24
Status
Single
Service No
590
Rank
Private
Unit
26th Battalion, A Company
Embarked
24-May-1915
Place
Brisbane
Active Service
Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front
Highest rank
Corporal
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
Returned to Australia
March 1919
Notes

Brother of 593 Private William Arthur Bauer (KIA).

 

Roy Bauer served at Gallipoli from September to December 1915. In March 1916 he arrived in France. In May he was wounded in action by multiple gunshots and hospitalised in France and England. He returned to France in October and transferred to the 15th Battalion. In March 1917 he was reported missing during fighting at Lagnicourt. He had been wounded, taken prisoner and interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. In January 1919 he was repatriated to England where he learned his younger brother William had been killed in action at Ypres four months earlier.