John Gordon CRAPPER

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CRAPPER, John Gordon

Service Number:	2606
Enlisted:	20 July 1915, Enlisted at Bendigo
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	23rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Tandara, Victoria, Australia, September 1885
Home Town:	Tandara, Loddon, Victoria
Schooling:	State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Machinery Traveller
Died:	Empyema , Capetown, South Africa, 2 May 1918
Cemetery:	Cape Town (Plumstead) Cemetery. Western Cape Province, South Africa Plot B1 Row UO, Grave Died while on his way home after being severely wounded at Bullecourt. Rev. C.H. Turner of Mission House, Chatte Street, Cape Town, South Africa Undertakers J.A. Human and Son of Waterloo Green, Wynberg
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

20 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2606, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Bendigo
27 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, 2606, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, 2606, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
23 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 58th Infantry Battalion, Egypt
15 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 57th Infantry Battalion, Egypt
3 Aug 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 23rd Infantry Battalion, France
4 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2606, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
22 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2606, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm
3 May 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2606, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (First), Multiple shell wounds to the foot,left hand and abdomen. Evacuated to England on 19 May 1917 on board Aberdonian

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of John and Ann Crapper of Tandara, Victoria; brother of Charles Alfred Crapper who returned to Australia on 10 December 1918 having served with the 14th Battalion and Arthur Leslie Crapper who returned to Australia on 31 March 1919 having served with the 59th Battalion

2 March 1917 - to hospital with Bronchitis and Laryngitis

10 March 1918 - embarked HS Orontes for return to Australia

19 Aril 1918 - admitted to Cape Town hospital as dangerously ill and unable to continue to Australia

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