NAME Charles Thomas COLE
BORN Abt. 1872
DIED 1921
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 662
UNIT A.A.M.C. 2nd AGH
ENLISTED Victoria Barracks 7 October 1914
DISCHARGED Sydney, 26 September 1919

Charles Cole obtained the block No. 307 on Hillview Soldier Settlement which was in the County of Cumberland, Parish of St Luke, Parramatta Land District. It consisted of six acres. Charles Cole died in 1921. The property (and the debts associated with the property) was transferred to his wife Evelyn Mary Cole. She married again taking the surname of Alcock.

Evelyn Alcock wrote on 11 March 1925, stating that she had ‘left Hillview and all connected with it…’.[1] Her indebtedness was eventually written off.

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW:  Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/7052 No. 4943], E.M. Alcock to Mr. Wearne Department of Lands 11 March 1925.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/7052 No. 4943] Charles Thomas Cole.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Charles Thomas Cole) online: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3267343&I=1&SE=1.