SUTHERLAND, Kenneth John
| Service Number: | 1241 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Stewarts Brook, New South Wales, Australia, 10 March 1895 |
| Home Town: | Stewarts Brook, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Myocardial degeneration and chronic bronchitis, Lade Davidson Hospital, Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia, 8 December 1962, aged 67 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Kenneth is buried with his wife Ida, PRESBYTERIAN-16NE. 47. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1241, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1241, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1241, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 14 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1241, 34th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, Medically unfit, due to wounding 14/7/1918 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
61 years ago today, on the 11th December 1962, Private Kenneth John Sutherland, 34th Battalion (Reg No-1241), stockman from Stewarts Brook, New South Wales and Newcastle?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 67. PRESBYTERIAN-16NE. 47.
Born at Stewarts Brook, New South Wales on the 10th March 1895 as John Kenneth to Kenneth and Alice Sutherland; husband of Ida Blodwyn Sutherland nee Price (married 1932, Scone, N.S.W., died 17.8.1977, age 65, sleeping here), Ken enlisted on the 26th January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 12.6.1916 (superficial punctate keratitis, serious - damage to the cells of the cornea’s outer layer, appendectomy, deafness), 2.11.1916 (bronchitis), 16.5.1918 (corneal inflammation).
Wounded in action - 14.7.1918 (GSW head).
Ken was invalided home on the 27th June 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 14th September 1919.
Mr. Sutherland’s name has been inscribed on the Scone District First World War Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Ken’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states DECEASED, 9/12/1962. Note: died 8/12/1962.
Officially commemorated– https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Inscription states 9th December 1962.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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