Edmond John MASON

Edmond John MASON Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

MASON, Edmond John

Service Number:	3828
Enlisted:	10 August 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	13th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Nundle, New South Wales, Australia, 10 June 1878
Home Town:	Tamworth, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Wangi Wangi, New South Wales, Australia, 9 April 1957, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-66. 27.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

10 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3828, 4th Infantry Battalion
30 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 3828, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: ''
30 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 3828, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Sydney
16 Apr 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3828, 13th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, 3x wounded, medically unfit (overage, rheumatism)

Help us honour Edmond John Mason's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

66 years ago today, on the 10th April 1957, Private Edmond John Mason, 13th Battalion (Reg No-3828), labourer from Blythe Street, Tamworth, New South Wales and Wangi Wangi, N.S.W. (1938), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 78. CATHOLIC 2-66. 27.

Born at Nundle, New South Wales on the 10th June 1878 as Edward John to John Thomas and Catherine Mason; husband of Ada May Mason nee Alderman (married 1899, Tamworth, N.S.W., died ?) of Peel Street, Tamworth, New South Wales and Hyman Street, Tamworth, N.S.W., Edmond enlisted on the 10th August 1915 with the 4th Battalion at Armidale, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A7 Medic on the 30th December 1915.

Admitted to hospital 11.4.1916 (not stated), 15.2.1917 (GSW left thigh).

Wounded in action 14.8.1916 (GSW hand & fingers), 27.11.1916 (SW or GSW left arm & head), 4.2.1917 (GSW left thigh).

Embarked for England 14.2.1917.

Edmond returned home on the 4th March 1918, being discharged medically unfit (overage, rheumatism) on the 16th April 1918.

Mr. Mason’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name possibly inscribed on the Tamworth Anzac Park First World War Memorial Gates.

I have placed poppies at this WW1 Digger’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

Lest We Forget.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia