Noel Beresford Forster RUTLEDGE

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RUTLEDGE, Noel Beresford Forster

Service Number:	531
Enlisted:	25 January 1915, Broadmeadows, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	3rd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries
Born:	Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, 1886
Home Town:	Toorak, Stonnington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grazier
Died:	Killed In Action, Belgium, 3 June 1917
Cemetery:	Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Wallonie, Belgium Plot I, Row F, Grave 1
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Geelong Grammar School Community Members Who Served

World War 1 Service

25 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 531, Broadmeadows, Victoria
25 Feb 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 531, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: ''
25 Feb 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 531, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Melbourne
16 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 531, 8th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
28 Aug 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 9th Field Artillery Brigade
3 Jun 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 3rd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries

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Biography contributed by Patrick Colson

Lieutenant Noel Beresford Forster Rutledge belonged to the 3rd Div. (Heavy) Trench Mortar Bty. Australian Field Artillery.

He was killed in action on June 3, 1917 (just a few days before the Battle of Messines) at the age of 32.

He was the son of Thomas Forster Rutledge and Edith Annie Lydia Rutledge, of 'Yarravale', Grange Rd., Toorak, Victoria, Australia.

Lt. Rutledge was native of Warrnambool, Victoria.

He is buried in Ploegsteert (Comines-Warneton, Belgium) at Strand Military Cemetery (I.F.1)

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