CURNOW, Richard
| Service Number: | 2619 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 July 1915, Bendigo, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 17th Light Railway Operating Company |
| Born: | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, May 1885 |
| Home Town: | Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Menin Road South Military Cemetery Plot II, Row J, Grave No. 18 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Buckley Street Methodist Sunday School Honor Roll, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2619, Bendigo, Victoria | |
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| 5 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 21st Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Moldavia embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 5 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 21st Infantry Battalion, RMS Moldavia, Melbourne | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 21st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 4 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 21st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 26 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 21st Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm | |
| 5 Nov 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2619, 21st Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17, GSW to back. Evacuated to hospital, France. Rejoined unit 25 December 1916. | |
| 15 Jan 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st Australian Light Railway Operating Company, France | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 2619, 17th Light Railway Operating Company, Third Ypres |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Richard Thomas CURNOW and Esther nee NAKEVILLE
WOUNDED BENDIGO SOLDIER. - 1916
Word has been received by Mrs. E. Curnow, off McClure street, Ironhark, that her eldest son, Private Richard Curnow, has been wounded in France. Private Curnow left Australia with the reinforcements of the 21st Battalion in October, 1915. Private Curnow makes the third member of the family to fall in battle, his brother Leonard dying of wounds, and Rupert has been in valided home and discharged.
CURNOW. —In loving memory of Private Richard Curnow, killed in action, Belgium, 4th October, 1917: also his brother, Private Leonard, died of wounds at Alexandria, 11th September, 1915.
The hardest part has yet to come,
When the other boys return.
The faces that we love the most
Are the boys that will never return.
— Inserted by their loving mother, brothers and sisters, 27 McClure-street.
Biography contributed by John Edwards
"...2619 Private Richard Curnow, 6th Reinforcements, 21st Battalion, of Bendigo, Vic. Pte Curnow enlisted on 26 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Moldavia on 5 October 1915. He was killed in action on 4 October 1917 in Flanders, Belgium, whilst serving with the 3rd Australia Light Railway Operating Company." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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