LAWRENCE, Jack Warren
| Service Number: | 1095 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 6th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia, 8 March 1890 |
| Home Town: | Summer Hill, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Locomotive Fireman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 14 November 1915, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 1, Row A, Grave 2 Rev. Father Mullins officiated Headstone inscription reads: A true Australian patriot, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 1095, 6th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 7 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1095, 6th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Chilka embarkation_ship_number: A51 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1095, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Chilka, Sydney | |
| 14 Nov 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 1095, 6th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1095 awm_unit: 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-11-14 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Charles and Ester Henrietta Lawrence of 'Lumeah', Beresford Road, Homebush, NSW formerly of 'Guyra', 7 Bogan Street, Summer Hill, NSW. Brother of Walter Lawrence
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Jack Warren LAWRENCE (Service Number 1095) was born on 8th March 1890 at Woollahra. He began work as a cleaner (the first rung in the career path to locomotive driver) at Murrurundi Locomotive Depot on 15th September 1913. In little more than four months he had progressed to fireman and been relocated to Narrabri. It was from this duty that he was released to join the Expeditionary Forces on 3rd March 1915. He enlisted at Liverpool a week later and was allotted to the 7th Reinforcements to the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade. He was not married and nominated his father Charles Lawrence of Bogan Street, Summer Hill as his next of kin.
Lawrence left Australia from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Chilka’ on 7th June 1915. Further training was undertaken in Egypt. He was taken on the strength of the unit at Gallipoli on 2nd October 1915.
He was killed in action at Anzac Cove on 14th November 1915 and was buried in Shell Green Cemetery, about 1,150 yards South of Anzac Cove, by Rev Father Mullins.
Although the official record is ‘killed in action’, his death was very much an unfortunate accident. Sgt E. Fisher 1085 reported:
‘[I] saw Lawrence shot. There were three or four mates together on the morning of November 14th at Anzac. Somervilles’s Post. One of them was cleaning his rifle. Lawrence got down from a loophole and the man who was cleaning the rifle accidentally shot him through the chest. The bullet glanced upward and came out at his shoulder. He died half an hour later. There was an enquiry and it was decided to list Lawrence as K/A [killed in action] since it was entirely an accident and the man who fired the shot would thus be exonerated. This man however wrote to Lawrence’s mother explaining the matter. [I] was sorry to lose Lawrence. He was a particularly fine fellow. He came over in the 7th Reinforcements of which [I] had charge.’
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.