1st Battalion
Killed In Action
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Charles Clifford Coutts (SN 798/Lt.) from Armstrong Street, had attended the Macarthur Street State School. He was a 21 year old maker of horse collars, when he enlisted in Ballarat on July 14th 1915. He was allocated to the 31st Infantry Battalion and left Melbourne on board the Wandilla in November. During his service he was commissioned as a Lieutenant. He was killed in action in the fighting at Polygon Wood on 29th September 1917, and is buried in the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium. He was 23 years of age.
