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PATCH, Noel James Stanway
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 2699 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 47th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wrentham, Suffolk, England., 1874 |
| Home Town: | Sarina, Mackay, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Cambridge University, England. |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 13 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Passchendaele, New British Cemetery Grave XIV. A. 8. INSCRIPTION “SIC ITUR AD ASTRA" -which means means ‘thus one journeys to the stars’ or ‘reach for the stars’ in common parlance. It is borrowed from Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ , Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mackay Old Town Hall Honour Roll, Sarina War Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 27 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2699, 47th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
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| 27 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2699, 47th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Brisbane |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Mar 1874 Patch Noel James S Blything 4a 719
He was 43 and the son of Henry and H. Elizabeth Patch.
INSCRIPTION on his wargrave reads:
“SIC ITUR AD ASTRA"
-which means ‘thus one journeys to the stars’ or ‘reach for the stars’ in common parlance. It is taken from Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’.
The Headstone details form shows NOK as Miss H.H.Patch of 55 Pevensey Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.
He is remembered on the Cambridge University, Corpus College World War 1 memorial which is in the form of two white sstone tablets in the chapel.