PARTRIDGE, Henry
| Service Number: | 177 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Berkshire England, 1876 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Riverton Memorial hHospital, 27 December 1959, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 12 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 177, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: '' | |
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| 12 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 177, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Armadale, Melbourne | |
| 30 Apr 1915: | Wounded Private, 9th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Second Landing at Gallipoli he was blown up by a shell from the Turkish gunboat "Goeben" lost his two mates and was evacuated to base hospital in Egypt. | |
| 1 Jan 1918: | Wounded Private, 9th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, One of the Forty Thousand Horsemen in the epic charge at Beersheba. After the capture of the town his horse was shot away from under him and was left by the regiment to bring forward remounts. He finally caught up with the unit 9 miles from Jerusalem. here he had an accident with a horse and was place in hospital. he was finally evacuated to Australia in 1918. and discharged from the Army in early 1919 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kathleen Bambridge
He had a long history of military service to the Empire. He enlisted on January 2 1895 in the Oxfordshire Light Infantry aged 18 years 6 months. he was immediately drafted to Ierland, were he served under Lord Roberts. During this period of training he earnedd 8d (8 pennies) per day. He endured hours of squad and rifle drill, night and day he did long route marches. Disipline was hard and strict. Dick sailed to India in November 1896 and disenbarked in Bombay. H esaw heavy fighting on the North-West Frontier against the Fanatical Afridi. On a diet of bully beef and hard dry biscuits he fought bitter skirmishes in the Kyber and Gando Pass zones. Conditions were terrible and worst ever experienced during his long years of soldiering. In the fighting no quarter was asked, and none was given or expected. Any man wounded and unable to walk was wiped off the unit strenght without fail, days later maybe their multiated bodies would be found. In early 1899 Dick returned to Feranzepore, Punjab, to recieve the Indian Frontier Medal with two clasps. He remained in India until 1908. He then saw service in Burma and Madras. In January 1913 Dick recieve his discharged in Madras and aftyer 18 years of soldiering he sailed to Australia.
Before Dick could settledown in Australia WW1 started. In September 1914 he enlisted with the AIF and joined the 9th Light Horse Regiment. He sailed from Melbourne in early 1915 for Egypt. In the second landing he and his two mates were blown up by a shell from the Turkish gunboat Goeben his mates killed he was evacuated to base hospital in Egypt. After his discharged from hospital Dick rejoined his regiment which now formed part of the mobile desert colum from Sinia campaign. He took part in the grim and bitter fighting for the string in small oases along the Mediterranean coast. Dick who was a fully trained muskety instructor was given the job to strip and overhaul the rifles of the entire Light Horse Regiment. This was completed in a ten day rest period. He was one of the men of the Forty thousand Horsemen in the epic charge of the on Beersheba. After the capture of the town he had his horse shot away from under him, and was left by the regiment to bring forward remounts. He finally caught up with the unit when it was 9 miles from Jerusalem. He was wounded by one of the horses and again was sent to hospital.. He was finally evacuated to Australia in 1918. He was later discharge in 1919. In the depression years he arrived in Saddleworth with his swag, he stayed ans settledown buying his own home.
During WW11 he rendered service to the pariotic appeals by selling badges. Until 1959 he had never missed a ANZAC Day march in the city. He marched with his mates form the 9th Llight Horse Regiment. A keen member of the Saddleworth RSL. Saddleworth RSL 1960 tribute "He lived and died as a soldier".