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CARR, Reginald William
| Service Number: | 1522 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1915, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 17 December 1895 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | 1 April 1963, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mount Gambier Lake Terrace Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1522, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 1522, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 1522, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
1522 Reginald William CARR was born at Mount Gambier on 17 December 1895. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 24 September 1909 by his father, Albert Edward Carr, a baker, of Commercial Street, Mount Gambier. He left school on 31 March 1910.317 In April 1915 he took part in a ‘fancy dress hockey match’ on Mount Gambier showground to raise money for the Red Cross. He was farewelled at Mount Gambier Railway Station on 16 August 1915 along with two other recruits bound for Adelaide.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 24 August 1915 (19, grocer, single, Methodist) naming his mother, Eliza Carr of James Street, Mount Gambier, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on 18 November 1915 on the ‘Geelong’ as a Private attached to the 12th Reinforcements to the 9th Light Horse Regiment, arriving in Egypt a month later. He joined the 9th Light Horse in late December 1915. He was transferred to the 2nd Light Horse Regiment on 25 February 1916 and was involved in defending the Nile Valley from pro-Turkish Senussi Arabs, protecting the Suez Canal and then advancing into the Sinai desert to turn back the advancing Turkish forces at Romani on 4 August 1916. He was transferred back to the 9th Light Horse on 13 September 1916 and took part in the capture of Turkish outposts at Maghdaba on 23 December 1916 and Rafa on 9 January 1917, the attacks on Gaza on 27 March and 19 April 1917 and the subsequent capture of Beersheba on 31 October 1917. He was sent to the rest camp at Port Said from 25 February to 10 March 1918 before being promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal on 18 March, and was involved in the Es Salt raid in May 1918. After the Turkish surrender he was promoted to Temporary Corporal on 26 April 1919, embarked at Kantara on the ‘Oxfordshire’ for return to Australia on 10 July 1919, disembarked on 10 August, and was discharged on 3 October.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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