Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Miltiades’ A28 for UK 9.8.1916.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 4th Reinf. 51st Bn.
Hyde disembarked at Plymouth 25.9.1916. He marched in to 13th Training Bn. at Rollestone 26.9.1916. After a period of intensive training, he proceeded overseas to France from Folkestone per SS ‘Henrietta’ 28.11.1916. He experienced the harsh winter of 1916-17 on the Somme in the trenches. The 51st Bn participated in the action that followed the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line in early 1917 and then at Messines and Polygon Wood later that year. Hyde was wounded in action in the Field, receiving a GSW to his right thigh in the first attack at Villers-Bretonneux 24.4.1918. He was transferred to hospital in Rouen then invalided per HS ‘Carisbrook Castle’ to the UK. Hyde was admitted to 1st Southern General Hospital at Birmingham 29.4.1918. He was then transferred to 3d Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford 6.5.1918. T On discharge he marched in to Hurdcott 10.5.1918. He was transferred to No. 4 Com. Depot 29.6.1918. Hyde marched out with the Training Bde ex Hurdcott for France 6.7.1918. He embarked for France 29.8.1918 and rejoined his Unit 6.9.1918 the 551st Bn fought at Vermand, where the troop took front line position along the peronne -St.Quentin railway. Hyde was wounded in this action (second time), receiving severe head injuries with a GSW to his jaw, neck, shoulder 14.9.1918. He was transferred by 4th Field Australian Ambulance to 3rd Casualty Clearing Station. Hyde Died of Wounds received in action in the Field 17.9.1918. He was buried at British and Indian Cemetery, La Chapelette, Peronne, Somme, France 1 ¼ miles South of Peronne, France. (62.C.O.9a.7.6.) Plot C, Row 3. The burial was conducted by Rev. F.R. Thurlow.
Final Rank Private, 51st Bn. AIF.
Medical Condition Dec’d, Died of wounds received in action.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Notes Hyde was born in Guildforrd, possibly in Scott St. Guildford. WA.
Photo  Pte. C.E. Hyde. Photograph source Western Mail 29.9.1916 p17
            Only wall standing in Messines, in the Town Square 17.6.1918. Photographer unknown, image courtesy AWM E01484
            Mont St Quentin Village shell damaged trenches and town wall 1918. Photographer unknown, Photograph source AWM E05311
            La Chapellette British Indian War Cemetery Peronne, France. Image reproduced courtesy CWWGC
            HMAT 'Miltiades'. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM P08559.001

Information Source
AWM E01484. Only wall standing in Messines, in the Town Square 17.6.1918. Photographer unknown, image sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Autralian War Memorial
AWM E05311. Mont St Quentin Village shell damaged trenches and town wall 1918. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM P08559.001. HMAT 'Miltiades'. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll Charles Ernest Hyde
AWM Roll of Honour- Charles Ernest Hyde
CWGC Image 3. La Chapellette British and Indian Cemetery, Peronne, France. Photograph sourced from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website 
http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/681/LA%20CHAPELETTE%20BRITISH%20AND%20INDIAN%20CEMETERY,%20PERONNE
Guildford Primary School Honour Roll
NAA: B2455, Hyde C E 2178
Western Mail
51st bBttalion https://www.awm.gov.au/unit/U51491/

Dalwallinu. WA.

 

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