ZULA, Reuben
| Service Number: | 735 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 March 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia, 25 July 1890 |
| Home Town: | Queenscliff, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Menin Road, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 27 years |
| Cemetery: |
Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium Plot IV, Row B, Grave No. 6, Hooge Crater Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Queenscliff Fire Brigade Honor Roll, Queenscliff St. George's Anglican Church Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 735, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 10 May 1915: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 735, 24th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' |
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| 30 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 735, 24th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 23 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 735, 24th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières | |
| 8 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 735, 24th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 735, 24th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Severe shrapnel wounds to head & back. Died same day either at/or on the way to, the CCS. | |
| 20 Sep 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 735, 24th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Pte Reuben Zula is also remembered at:
Queenscliff Memorial Garden;
Queenscliff RSL Honor Roll;
Queenscliff Fire Brigade Honor Roll; and
St Georges C of E Memeorial Plaque, Queenscliff, Vic.
Biography
"OUR 'BOYS.'
Another of Queenscliff's young soldiers has made the supreme sacrifice. On Thursday Mr and Mrs Zula received word from the Defence Department, that their son, Pte Reuben Zula, had been killed in France on Aug 20th. The ill-news naturally came as a great shock to parents and friends, as it was not known that he was in France, he having been for some time in the Furlough office in London. Pte Reuben left about 2½ years ago, and suffered from shell shock at Gallipoli. This was the second time he had been in France. The many friends of the family offer their sympathy. A younger brother, Julius, is at present in Belgium." - from the Queenscliff Sentinel, Drysdale, Portarlington, Sorrento Advertiser 20 Oct 1917 (nla.gov.au)
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