RANDELL, Raymond Keith
| Service Number: | 3393 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 52nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 16 April 1893 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Perth Boys' and Girls' School, James St Perth, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 September 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France Plot XXXIII, Row G, Grave No. 1. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3393, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3393, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3393, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Fremantle | |
| 3 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 52nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 18 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 52nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The son of Samuel Joseph and Charlotte Kate Randell, of Perth, Western Australia. His brother, 1620 Pte. Norman Randell 28th Battalion AIF returned to Australia in 1919.
Randell was reported missing during the last attack by the Australians at Mouquet Farm in September 1916. Despite the efforts of the Red Cross and others to discover his fate, little was known of the circumstances of his death.
During exhumation work by the Imperial War Graves Commission during 1930, his remains were found and identified by his identity disc and a watch. He was reinterred in the Serre Road No.2 Cemetery at Beamont Hamel in France. His father was most grateful in receiving his disc and watch which were returned to Australia in 1931, fifteen years after the death of his son.