Remembrance Day - Windback Wednesday

"Remember – the blood of valiant sons was shed, that we might dwell ‘neath peaceful skies; keep green their memory; they are not dead; on their ideals our nationhood shall rise."

Burnside District Fallen Soldiers Memorial, The Register, 28 July 1919.

At age 20, Private Carl L Schrader was killed in action on 20 November 1915 in Gallipoli. He died less than two months after his departure.

Private Schrader lived with his parents on Kensington Road in Rose Park. He was educated at Rose Park School and upon graduating worked as a clerk for the Executor, Trustee and Agency Company. He was an active member at St Theodore’s Church frequently helping with Sunday school.

Private Schrader has no known grave “Known unto God” and is honoured in the Burnside District Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial (Rose Park).

On November 11, we remember Private Carl Schrader and all those who fought and died to keep us free. Lest We Forget.

Photograph: Private Carl L Schrader, 1915. Burnside Local History Collection.