TRIPNEY, Adam
| Service Number: | 3191 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 July 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Linlithgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, October 1877 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 21 October 1938, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 4-11. 13. |
| Memorials: | Adamstown Methodist Church Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3191, 1st Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 11 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3191, 1st Pioneer Battalion | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 3191, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 3191, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 16 Jan 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3191, 1st Pioneer Battalion, 2nd MD, medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
83 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 23rd October 1938 (2 funerals on this day), Private Adam Brown Tripney, 1st Australian Pioneer Battalion (Reg No-3191), labourer from 25 Dibbs Street, Adamstown, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 61. METHODIST 4-11. 13.
Born at Linlithgow, Scotland, United Kingdom about 1877 to David and Margaret Tripney nee Brown; husband of Elizabeth May Tripney nee Smith (married 1901, Adamstown, N.S.W., died 1941, sleeping here), Adam enlisted July 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 15.8.1917 (renal colic).
Adam returned home November 1917, being discharged medically unfit (acute pyelonephritis) on the 16th January 1918.
Did not receive Victory Medal.
Mr. Tripney’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial and the Adamstown Methodist Church Honour Roll (photo, unveiled on the 31st October 1915, 82 names now inscribed. 11 Fallen).
Younger brother David Thompson (1st Australian Pioneer Battalion, Reg No-3192, born 1885, died 1930) also resting at the cemetery - METHODIST 3 (UNITING)-F. 14.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Adam’s gravesite in remembrance of his service for God, King & Country during The Great War.
Lest We Forget.
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