Sergeant Gordon Wedd
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Service number
- 2330
- Unit
- 51 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Mouquet Farm, France
- Date of death
- 3 September 1916
- Age
- 23
- Plaque number
- M405B
- Co-located plaques
- M405 - PTE Alfred Lindsay
- M405A - PTE Alfred Chappell
- Dedicated by
- Descendents on 13 November 2021
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Sergeant Charles Gordon Wedd of 51 Battalion was born was born at Cheltenham, Victoria in August 1893 to Peter Ebenezer and Elizabeth Jane Wedd. He was one of four sons and six daughters.
In 1903, the family moved to Narrogin, Western Australia and later to Ninth Avenue, Maylands. Following schooling he was employed as a clerk in the civil service.
Prior to his enlistment in July 1915, Charles served for twelve months as a trooper in the 25th Australian Light Horse CMF unit (compulsory military force) based in Perth.
Following enlistment, he underwent basic training at Perth and was allotted to 11 Battalion. The reinforcement unit then embarked at Fremantle for the war.
As part of the ‘doubling’ of the Australian Imperial Force, 51 Battalion was raised in Egypt in March 1916. It comprised half of its recruits from 11 Battalion and the remainder from reinforcements from Australia.
Following further training, the new 51 Battalion moved to England and then on to France landing there in June 1916, and from there to the trenches of the western front.
51 Battalion then fought its first major battle at Mouquet Farm in August and September of 1916. The unit suffered significant casualties equal to a third of its strength in the two attacks on 14 August and 3 September 1916.
Sergeant Charles Gordon Wedd, service number 2330 of 51 Battalion, was killed in action on 3 September 1916 at Mouquet Farm, France.
He was 22 years of age and is buried at Bouzincourt Ridge cemetery, Albert, Picardie, France.