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Wife: Marguerite Alice Carson. nee:.
Died: 31st August 1918. Killed in Action Road Wood, Peronne, France.
Mother: Margaret Carson. nee:.
George Moffatt Carson enlisted with B Company 36th Battalion AIF on the 9th of March 1916
and left Sydeny on board HMAT A72 "Beltana" on the 13th of May 1916 with the rank of Sergeant and
disembarked at Devonport, England on the 9th of July 1916. George spent the next 4 months with the
9th Training Battalion before proceeding overseas from Southampton for France on the 22nd of
November 1916.
George was taken on in strength in the field with the 36th Battalion and was B Company Signals
Sergeant. Whilst on active service George was Charged with Neglect of
duty in that having been ordered to have his billets cleared and men properly dressed at 7:00am
he failed to do so on the 14th of April 1917. Award Reprimanded by the Commanding Officer
of the 36th Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel: John Alexander MILNE.
18th June 1917
Sergeant: 1405 George Moffatt CARSON. 36th Battalion AIF. His MAJESTY THE KING
has been graciously pleased to award the Military Medal for bravery in the field.
London Gazette 16th August 1917. Page 8426 Position 76.
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 20th of December 1917. Page 3376
Position 86.
George was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on the 26th of June and later detatched to the Signals School
at BAILLEUL, Belgium on the 2nd of August. After rejoining the 36th Battalion, George was selected
as Brigade Signalling Officer on the 13th of August. He was
again promoted to Lieutenant on the 9th of October in the field. George was granted leave to
England on the 9th of December and returned on Christmas Day to the front line in Belgium.
He was once again detatched to the Signals School on the 6th of January until the 28th of
January 1918 but the next day he was treated by the 9th Australian Field Ambulance, suffering
from Ochitis Eydidymites. George was admitted to the Australian
Casulaty Clearing Station the same day and returned to duty nearly a month later on the 24th of
February. Just over two month later the 36th Battalion was disbanded on the 30th of April 1918 and
George found himself being transfered to D Company 33rd Battalion, and was taken on strength in
the field.
After being transfered to the 33rd Battalion George was sent to the Corps Infanry School on the
9th of July for the next 5 weeks, returning on the 16th of August. Two weeks later George was
Killed in Action whilst leading his platoon at Road Wood in Peronne,
France. He was buried by Reverend W.E.Berkett.
10th January 1919.
Informant; Private: 2405 Percy Ninnis Monkland VEALE.
A middle aged man, 5ft. 8ins, fair, Signalling Officer. A man very poular with the boys-full of
life. At BRAYE-sur-SOMME in the open, Lieutenant: 1405 George Moffatt CARSON was hit badly
by shell, but body not mutilated. Killed instantly. His body was buried with three others a couple
of hundred yards from where hit near SUSSANNE-BRAYE Road. I helped to bury him and Coy Pioneers
made a cross for his grave whilst our company was resting.
Australian Auxillary Hospital, DARTFORD, England.
22nd March 1919.
Informant; Private 485 Norman Stanley KEMP
Lieutenant: 1405 George Moffatt CARSON was attatched to D Company. He was shot through the
head by Machine-Gun fire, to the left of CLERY, in the early morning. He was buried in the same
field, the same evening, and his grave was marked. He was buried with several others in one
grave.
Australian Demobilising Base.
3rd April 1919
Informant; Private: 3379 Henry Burleigh SAYWELL.
I helped to bury Lieutenant: 1405 George Moffatt CARSON (don't know company) on the night of
August 31st, after he had been killed, I believe instantly that morning during the hop over by
machine gun bullets through the shoulder and mouth at BENCHAVESNES, north of MONT ST-QUENTIN. I
was a H/Qs runner at the time. We carried his body about 100 yards from where he fell to bury him.
A cross was made for his grave. Private: 3132 Richard Stanley THOMPSON
was buried in the same grave. I dont rember when he was shot.
33rd Bn Headquarters, Le Harve, France.
16th May 1919.
Informant; Private: 3155 William Patrick WARE I knew
Lieutenant: 1405 George Moffatt CARSON personally. He was about 40 years of age, tall,
dark and thin. He was very well liked. On 31/08/1918 we were at Mont St-Quentin. I was stretcher
-bearing and saw CARSON in a sap. A shell came over and hit him, killing him instantly. I went
ahead picking up wounded and saw no more of him.
Derringullen, YASS.
George was a married 35 year old Entomologist from "Woodgift" Woolwich, Sydney, N.S.W. prior to
enlistment.
George's mother Margaret Carson, died in November 1941 in Bannu, India. George and
Marguerite Carson had 1 child, a boy named George Lefroy Carson
(Australian National Archives)
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