TEAGUE, Vincent Eustace
| Service Numbers: | 777, 2052 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Warrant Officer |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Hotham, Victoria, Australia, 1886 |
| Home Town: | Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Marist Brothers College |
| Occupation: | Draughtsmen |
| Died: | Attributed to War Service, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, Australia, 7 April 1932 |
| Cemetery: |
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, NSW Roman Catholic FM AA Grave 310 |
| Memorials: | Bearii and Ulupna Memorial, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Bendigo Marist Brothers College Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 777, 7th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 777, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 27 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 2052, 2nd Pioneer Battalion | |
| 15 Feb 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Warrant Officer, 2052, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, Discharged as medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed
Vincent Eustace TEAGUE was born in Hotham in Victoria in 1886
His parents were Joseph Edward Lewis TEAGUE & Mary Ann JOBE
He married Edith Maud THOMSON in Western Australia in 1911 - Edith died in 1921 and he remarried in Sydney in 1925 to Ellen Veronica STOKES
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His brother John Price TEAGUE (SN 452) also served in the Army during WW1 and was discharged in 1919
Biography contributed by Jack Coyne
Report in the Bendigonian Newspaper May 15 1917
Source - Trove
BENDIGONIAN HONORED RECOMMENDED TWICE FOR MILITARY CROSS. WARRANT-OFFICER VINCENT E. TEAGUE,
Mr. J. Teague, licensee of trie Queen's Hotel, Mitchell Street, received a letter from his son, Vincent, who was recently discharged from hospital, and is now back on the French front, stating that be had earned his second recommendation- for the Military Cross on the Somme.
Warrant-Officer Teague prior to enlisting on the outbreak of war was for 9 years a staff- sergant major in the Australian Military Forces, and was held in the very highest regard by officers and men who came in contact with him. He could not hold his rank of SSM
on enlisting, but so keen was he to do his duty for King and Empire that he gave up his appointment
and enlisted as a private. (He soon rose from the ranks, going through all non-commissioners officers appointments. He served right through the Gallipoli campaign from the landing to the evacuation, being wounded three times. He was recommended by Lleut.-Colonel Coward for the Military Cross on Gallipoli, but, all such distinctions have been withheld till the inquiry
into the Gallipoli campaign had been completed. In his report to his superior officer, Major B. Duggan
said of Warrant-Officer Teague: —
"He was attached to D Coy/ 21st Battalion, for two months with me on Courtney's and Steele's Post and
Lone Pine, remaining there till the evacuation. His company provided the last parties to remain on Gallipoli. W.O. Teague proved a very valuable and trustworthy N.G.O., and I had tbe utmost confidence in him and received considerale assistance from him as company sergeant-major."
How Warrant-Officer Teague earned the Military Cross for the second time is not yet known. He was in the Tidworth Hospital, England, after the Somme battle, and is now again serving with the Australian
forces, and is probably with them at Bullecourt. He is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Teague, whose
youngest son is also serving with
-the A.I. F in France." The gallant soldier is 31 years of age and married.
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