CARRINGTON, John
| Service Number: | 422 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 September 1914, Rockhampton, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Longreach, Queensland, 26 September 1889 |
| Home Town: | Comet, Central Highlands, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 9 May 1915, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Quinn's Post Cemetery, ANZAC Sp. Mem. 5. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Emerald War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 422, 15th Infantry Battalion, Rockhampton, Queensland | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 422, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 422, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 422, 15th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 9 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 422, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 422 awm_unit: 15th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1915-05-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of William CARRINGTON Jnr and Georgina nee BROWN
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
Mr. John Carrington, who joined the expeditionary force and was sent to the Dardanelles, is notified as being missing. He was a member of the 15th Battalion Infantry. Mr. John carrington as well known and liked in and around Comet, where he usually made his home. He is a brother of Mrs. F. Elliott and Mr. F.F. Carrington. His mother has been dead for some time, but his father is still living at Esk.
Private John Carrington, another of the missing, is a son of a well-known Comet family. Messrs. W. Carrington, Cambridge-street. Rockhampton, and F. Carrington, Comet, are his uncles. He is twenty-six years of age and a stock man by occupation.
CARRINGTON.—Killed in action at the Dardanelles, 9th May, 1915, Private John Carrington.
Memories with sad recollections we'll cherish
Fond thoughts of the loved one far
away though cold in the clay,
For his image is stamped where it never can perish,
Nor pass from our memory in silence away.
(Inserted by his loving sisters, brother, and brother-in-law, S. and G. Carrington, E. and W. Macdonald.)
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