Cedric Evan HUNTER

HUNTER, Cedric Evan

Service Number: 10421
Enlisted: 9 November 1915, Melbourne, Vic.
Last Rank: Gunner
Last Unit: 4th Field Artillery Brigade
Born: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town: Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling: Xavier College, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Station Hand
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 22 August 1917
Cemetery: Voormezeele Enclosures No.1 and No.2, Belgium
Plot I, Row 2 Grave No. 30, Voormezeele Enclosures No 1 and No 2, Voormezeele, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor
Show Relationships

World War 1 Service

9 Nov 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 10421, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Melbourne, Vic.
5 Jan 1916: Involvement Gunner, 10421, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
5 Jan 1916: Embarked Gunner, 10421, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Afric, Melbourne
13 May 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 22nd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, France
25 Jan 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , France
6 May 1917: Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, France
27 Aug 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 10421, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Third Ypres, SW to head sustained at Larch Wood. Admitted to 42nd Field Ambulance however died of wounds the same day.

Help us honour Cedric Evan Hunter's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Uncle: Captain Herbert Humphreys HUNTER, 7th Bn, killed in action, 8 May 1915.