Charles Alfred Peel

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Unit: 2nd Battalion

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Charles Peel was born in Dublin, Ireland on 18 March 1886 and was a wool classer. He served six years in Prince Albert’s Own Hussars before the war. He enlisted on 2 October 1915, giving as next of kin his wife living in Annandale.

He embarked on the Benallaon 9 November 1916 and served with the 2nd Battalion. He was gassed and wounded in the foot at Passchendaele on 4 October 1917.

He was returned to Australia on 12 December 1917, and was hospitalised at Randwick; his appointment was terminated on 16 May 1918. A Miss Porter from Salisbury, England, wrote to military authorities in 1918 asking his whereabouts, claiming he had fathered a child on her. In 1919 he was Conducting Officer at Broadmeadows Camp in Victoria.He divorced in 1925 – see Truth6 September 1925. He filed for bankruptcy in 1928.