Windback Wednesday - Anzac Day

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 for the front.

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 and frequently assisted the Sunday school.

Private Schrader has no known grave "Known unto God" and is honoured today at the Burnside District Fallen Soldiers' Memorial in Rose Park, on the corner of Prescott Terrace and Alexandra Avenue.

On Anzac Day, we remember Private Schrader, as well as all Australians and New Zealanders who have fallen in service of their nations in conflicts all across the world. Lest we forget.

"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

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