Hutchinson Family Papers
Collection
Greeting cards, postcards, leave pass, correspondence sent to and by Richard Charles Hutchinson and Charles Wesley Hutchinson during World War I and World War II. Also includes a map, possibly used by R.C. Hutchinson during his escape to Switzerland from a prisoner of war camp.
Charles Hutchinson (1885-1962) a labourer from Duleen via Dalby, enlisted in Toowoomba on 15 September 1915 age of 30 and was assigned to the 15th Infantry Battalion. He embarked from Brisbane 31 January 1916 on HMAT Wandilla arriving in Egypt in March 1916. He was sent to France in June 1916 and was transferred to the 4th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery. Charles was wounded in action in France on 1 February 1917 with shrapnel wounds to his left hand. He was sent to the Bath War Hospital in England to recover. He re-joined his unit in Belgium in June 1917. On 22 September 1917 he was promoted to Lance Corporal and received the Military Medal in October 1917 for conspicuous gallantry and good work during operations near Zonnebeke, Belgium, on 26 September 1917. During this action he suffered shrapnel wounds to the face and shell shock and was sent to England for treatment and recuperation. He returned to Australia on board HT Balmoral Castle in February 1918. Charles died on 29 May 1962 and is buried in Dalby Cemetery, Queensland.
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