Other Information:Charles was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sidney University, where he qualified M.B., Ch.M in 1915. He sailed to England in March 1915, then entered the war in France on 9th July 1915 as the R.M..O., 7th Bn. Royal Scotts Fusiliers. He was reported as wounded in the Lancet on 15th August 1915. Maj Walter S Campbell reported "Wounded during some very heavy shelling of our billets. He went out with our colonel to get some of his stretcher-bearers under cover and had succeeded in doing this, but, seeing the colonel wounded in the road, he went out again and tried to assist him under cover. Another shell then exploded. The shell killed the colonel and wounded your nephew in the leg and arm." Charles was the son of Henry and Hannah Harris of Sydney, Australia.
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