SPINKS, Oscar Henry
| Service Number: | 2446 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 45th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, 28 June 1890 |
| Home Town: | Quirindi, Liverpool Plains, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 25 June 1960, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-198. 60. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2446, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 2446, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 2446, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney | |
| 10 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2446, 45th Infantry Battalion , 2nd MD |
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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.
65 years ago today, on the 27 June 1960, Private Oscar Henry Spinks, 45th Battalion (Reg No-2446), labourer from Young Street, Quirindi, New South Wales and East Maitland?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 69. ANGLICAN 3-198. 60.
Born at Glen Innes, New South Wales on the 28th June 1890 to Henry Joseph, died 22.8.1923, Granville, N.S.W., age 62, buried at Rookwood General Cemetery, and Angelina Rosa Spinks nee Gardner, died 11.9.1953, Maitland, N.S.W., age 88, mother of 4?, sleeping at ANGLICAN 3-191. 1, buried on the 14.9.1953, no funeral or death notice; husband of Annie Spinks nee Hawkins, married 1921, Murrurundi, N.S.W., died 2.5.1957, Maitland, N.S.W., age 67, sleeping here - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190755412/annie-spinks, Oscar enlisted on the 31st May 1915 with the 13th Battalion at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on the 20th August 1915.
Admitted to hospital 13.10.1915 (injury to knee cap), 12.3.1919 (influenza, dangerously ill).
Wounded in action - 15.8.1916 (GSW or SW right knee or leg).
Commenced return to Australia 13.7.1919.
Oscar arrived home on the 2nd September 1919, being discharged on the 1st November 1919.
Mr. Spinks’s name has not been inscribed on the Murrurundi and Warrah Shire First World War Roll of Honor, Murrurundi Shire War and Services Honour Roll, Quirindi and Werris Creek First World War Roll of Honor and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Oscar’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states DECEASED, 25.6.1960 (CWGC).
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
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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