Soldier profiles
Name : WEGG, CHARLES HERBERT
Service Number : NX91233
Date of Birth : 02/04/1914
Place of Birth : BENONI, S AFRICA
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment :
Date of Enlistment : 05/03/1942
Locality on Enlistment : GOOLGOWI, NSW
Place of Enlistment : PADDINGTON, NSW
Next of Kin : WEGG, ROWENA
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : LIEUTENANT
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/6 FIELD COMPANY ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERS
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : NEW GUINEA
Actions : NADZAB (NEW GUINEA)
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 26/02/1946
Date Died : ??/07/1981
Age at Death : 67
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : WORONORA GENERAL CEMETERY AND CREMATORIUM, SUTHERLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA. GENERAL PLAQUE LAWN - LAWN 6 - 2319.
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : WW2 : Mentioned in Despatches on 26/10/1944. London Gazette 08/03/1945 Gazette: Page 1306, position 85. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 15/03/1945 Page 652, position 43.
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : Australian War Memorial Awards Circular
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 4609987 [NOT EXAMINED]), WW2 Nominal Roll
Background : Husband of Ivy Irene. Cremated and buried 08/07/1981. Ivy (died ??/09/2007) also cremated and buried 22/09/2007 with Charles. His mother Rowena Jane (died ??/02/1972) also cremated and buried 24/02/1972 at Roman Catholic Plaque Lawn - Lawn 3 - 0607.
