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TUCKER, John Phillip Hill
| Service Number: | 1748 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 1898 |
| Home Town: | Maylands (SA), Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Dentist |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 10 April 1943, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) Section: LO, Road: 4S, Site No: 8 |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Lower North Adelaide War Memorial WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1748, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1748, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Port Lincoln, Adelaide | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 1748, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
John Phillip Hill Tucker born in the year 1898 in Broken Hill. Tucker's next of kin was his mother, Susan Etheleen Priscilla Ford. Before enlisting in war, he was a dentist. Tucker was recorded as 5'8, weighing 61 kilograms, blue eyes and brown hair, with a distinctive scar on the left side of his face. He followed the religion of Methodism.
Over the course of his time served, he sustained a few injuries, including a shrapnel wounded ankle and leg on the 9th of July 1915 at the Dardanelles. He was admitted to the First Australian General Hospital in Heliopolis, Egypt. A smaller accident also involving his leg lasted from the 10th of August 1915 to the 11th of September 1915, where he stayed at another hospital in Egypt. On the 23rd of December 1916, Tucker unfortunately contracted gonorrhoea. Altogether, he was absent from duty for 81 days total, and changed hospitals 10 times over the course of 2 years.
Tucker left the hospital and proceeded to return to war on the 29th of March, 1917, only to be officially reported missing a few weeks later on the 11th of April In France. It was marked as 'missing in action 'field''. Luckily, he was found after a few months and returned to his unit on the 27th of October 1917. Closer to the end of World War 1, Tucker got captured in Reincutt, Germany, and was recorded as a prisoner of war. Fortunately, he was freed later on.
On the 2nd of March 1919, Tucker retuned to Australia from war. Unfortunately, he died on the 10th of April in 1943, at the young age of 47. You can visit his gravestone at the AIF Cemetery at West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide, South Australia. The section is LO, road 4S, and site number 8.
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