Bar OAKEY

Badge Number: 2253, Sub Branch: Hamley Bridge
2253

OAKEY, Bar

    Service Number: 157
    Enlisted: 20 July 1915, Keswick, South Australia
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 32nd Infantry Battalion
    Born: Caltowie, South Australia, 22 April 1893
    Home Town: Gawler, Gawler, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Compositor
    Died: Natural Causes, Trevu Private Hospital, Hamley Bridge, South Australia, 27 May 1976, aged 83 years
    Cemetery: Hamley Bridge General Cemetery
    Commemorated with a plaque in the SA Garden of Remembrance
    Memorials: Gawler Council Gawler Men Who Answered the Call WW1 Roll of Honor, Gawler War Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    20 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Keswick, South Australia
    18 Nov 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 157, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
    18 Nov 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 157, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
    19 Jul 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 157, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Shell wound to the leg. Invalided to England on 24 July 1916 aboard HS Cambria
    17 Apr 1917: Discharged AIF WW1
    Date unknown: Wounded 157, 32nd Infantry Battalion

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    Biography

    Discharged from Service on 17 Apr 1917, after being Wounded in Action in France on 19 Jul 1916

    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of George Oakey and Lizzy Oakey nee Platten of Caltowie, SA

    Husband of Lucy Nellie Oakey nee Goldney of William Street, Gawler, SA. Bar and Lucy married on 28 August 1915 in the Church of the Transfiguration, Gawler South, SA.

    Commenced return to Australia on 9 September 1916 aboard HS Kanowna disembarking on 29 October 1916

    Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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