Fremantle Caledonians
WA

Charles Dunbar Monteath

Enlistment Date
01/10/1915
Age At Enlistment
29
Rank On Enlistment
Private
Regimental No.
3579
Battalion
28th Battalion, 8th Reinforcement
Fate
Died of Wounds
Fate Date
30/03/1918
Fate Place
France
Occupation
Labourer
Place of Birth
Dumbarton, Scotland
Religion
Presbyterian
Marital Status
Single
Embarkation Details
Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A30 Borda on 17 January 1916

Charlie Monteath “was born in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1886. After the death of his parents he migrated to Western Australia and resided at 99 Alma Street Fremantle. He joined the newly-formed Caledonian Soccer Club in 1913 and was one of the 14 members of Callies who enlisted en masse at the end of the season in 1915. Charlie served in France with the 51st Battalion in 1916 and in 1917 transferred to the 13th Australian Field Ambulance. On 3rd March 1918, he was severely wounded in the abdomen during the Australian Army’s familiar defeat of the German Army at Villers-Bretonneux. He died later that day.”
Excerpted from John Williamson’s Soccer Anzacs: The Story of the Caledonian Soccer Club.