MAYMAN, Rupert Livingstone
| Service Number: | 368 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 10th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | 12 Henry Street, Norwood, South Australia, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Memorials: | Adelaide Royal Oak Lodge Honor Roll, Norwood Primary School Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 368, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 368, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Adelaide |
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Rupert Livingstone Mayman (Service No. 368) was a part of World War 1 (1914-1918). He was born in 1888 in Kent Town, Adelaide, South Australia. His parents were Emma Mayman, born in Gawler River, South Australia, and David Thomas Mayman, born in United Kingdom. Rupert had 11 siblings including himself with which only one of his brothers and a cousin went to war with him. Rupert’s brothers name was Llewellyn Mayman (Service No. 329) and he was older than Rupert. His cousin’s name was William Joseph Francis Mayman (Service No. 355). His occupation before enlisting for the war was a clerk. Before the war, Rupert had trained at a rifle training club named ‘Watervale Rifle Club’ in Clare Valley which he had been developing his rifle skills there for 14 months.
On 20th August, 1914, Rupert Livingstone Mayman enlisted for the war at Morphettville, Adelaide S.A. He entered all his details to the documents that can be viewed today, and he was off to Egypt to train on the ‘A11 Ascanius’. Rupert had ranked up many times throughout the war. He began as a private in the 10th Infantry Battalion, ranked up to a Lance Corporal on 9th September, 1914 and was also a Temporary Captain.
Throughout the war, Mayman had many injuries including a G.S.W (Gun Shot or General Shrapnel Wound) in Cairo on 30th April, 1915. Along with these, he suffered with tonsillitis on 4th September 1918.
During the war, Rupert was evacuated from the fighting as he was having stomach problems. This problem turned into a more serious problem as he caught the disease of ‘dysentery’ which affected him for a few months. He lasted in hospital for 2 months and since he had been infected with this disease, he had multiple severe attacks to him alternating with constipation and diarrhoea. These attacks were harmful and each attack and the duration of each one would be for approximately 3-4 days and he would get these once a month. Also in some instances, the fever and a ‘furred tongue’ were associated during the times when he was suffering with the attacks of his dysentery.
Throughout the war in 1916, Rupert’s family had moved houses from his old at 12 Henry Street, Norwood, Adelaide South Australia to his new house at 145 Parade, Norwood, Adelaide South Australia.
After the war, Rupert returned to Australia along with his brother, Llewellyn Mayman, on 24th December, 1919 with the transport of the ship ‘Ormonde’. Sadly, Rupert’s cousin that came along to the war with him and his brother passed away when he was 29. Rupert’s cousin, William Joseph Francis Mayman, enlisted for war at the age of 25, in 1914 but had died during the last year of the war.
Along with the end of WW1, Rupert Livingstone Mayman was awarded with the ‘Order of the British Empire’ in 1919 for his duties throughout the war. Eventually after a year’s notice of him being awarded this, he claimed his reward in 1920.
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