KING, Cecil John
| Service Numbers: | 2626, N76215 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 30 June 1898 |
| Home Town: | Uralla, Uralla, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | East Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 29 November 1972, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-102. 155. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2626, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 26 May 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2626, 3rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, MU due to wounding at Pozieres |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, N76215 | |
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| 9 Jul 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Corporal, N76215 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
51 years ago today, on the 1st December 1972, Private Cecil John King, referred to as Jack, 3rd Battalion (Reg No-2626), labourer from Salisbury Plains, Uralla, New South Wales and Returned Soldier's Settlement, Kentucky, N.S.W. and 28 Copeland Street, East Lambton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 74. CATHOLIC 3-102. 155.
Born at Sydney, New South Wales on the 30th June 1898 to Walter and Hanora King (Carlon); husband of Veronica Magdalene King nee Ryan (married 1943, Uralla, N.S.W., died 8.9.1985, Newcastle, N.S.W., sleeping here), Jack enlisted on the 27th June 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A54 Runic on the 9th September 1915.
Wounded in action - 18.12.1915 (GSW left shoulder & chest), 23.7.1916 (GSW arm, shoulder, buttock, severe, Battle of Pozières).
Commenced return to Australia 16.10.1916.
Jack arrived home invalided on the 2nd December 1916, being discharged medically unfit (GSW right arm & thigh) on the 26th April 1917.
Mr. King’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Jack’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html.
Older brother Walter James (born 19.8.1893, Newtown, N.S.W., labourer from Salisbury Plains, Uralla, New South Wales, enlisted 1.10.1914, 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Reg No-619, an Original Anzac, wounded in action - 8.12.1915 (GSW scalp, mild), reported missing 28.3.1918, reported Prisoner of War in Turkey 21.6.1918, sustained a GSW right leg & arm, severe, Palestine, March 1918, RTA invalided 8.5.1919, died 28.7.1950, Uralla, N.S.W., age 56, not officially commemorated, should automatically qualify) also served 1st A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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