LIDSTER, Cecil Reginald John
| Service Number: | 413 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914, Rosebery Park, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Germans Hill, New South Wales, Australia , 7 June 1893 |
| Home Town: | Orange, Orange Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St Josephs Convent School |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 20 May 1915, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli III D 35 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Orange "Fallen of Orange" Memorial Banners, Orange Cenotaph, Orange Patrician Brothers' Old Boys Union Great War Roll of Honor, Orange WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 413, Rosebery Park, New South Wales | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 413, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 413, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 9 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 413, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 20 May 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 413, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 413 awm_unit: 1 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-05-20 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Cecil Reginald John LIDSTER was born in 1893 in German Hill which is near Orange in NSW
His parents were Joseph LIDSTER and Sarah PRESS who married in NSW in 1892
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Cecil's Mother Sarah died within weeks of giving birth to a child in May 1895, and his father John Lidster was working at Newrea, near Wellington at that time. Just prior to 1901 his father went to Queensland leaving seven year old Cecil in the care of his own and late wife's families - the Lidster's and Press's. He was educated at St Joseph's School in Orange.
Once news of Cecil's death reached Orange and district, some of the residents of the district around German's Hill, where Cecil had worked and was well known, held a public meeting and lodged a request in the Postal Department to rename the area either Lidster or Anzac, with their preference being for the former 'in memory of a fine youn man..... one of the first to volunteer for the area'. The request was granted and so the locality on that section of the Orage-Cargo Road is now known as Lidster.
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