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KING, Peter
| Service Number: | 2705 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Manoora, South Australia, 4 April 1887 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor Driver to Premier, Sourh Australia |
| Died: | Daw Park, South Australia, 19 August 1968, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Derrick Garden of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Manoora Pictorial Honour Roll, Manoora Roll of Honour WW1, New Thebarton Lodge No 23 U.A.O.D. Roll of Honour, Riverton Holy Trinity Anglican Church Honour Roll WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
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| 27 Oct 1915: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Corporal, 2705, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' |
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| 27 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 2705, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2705 |
World War 2 Service
| 11 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA |
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World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by tony griffin
The King family
In 1883 the Ware family of brewers and horse owners purchased property north east of Manoora. They named the property “Craiglee”. Being absentee landowners the Ware family appointed Thomas King to manage the property. Thomas King managed Craiglee for 21 years until his death in 1906. Six of the children of Thomas and his wife Mary (nee Michael) were born at Manoora.
Peter King, the son of Thomas and Mary King was born in Manoora on 4 April 1887. Peter married Ida May Jacka, daughter of Joseph Jacka, on 27 June 1911. With 2 children Peter was 28¾ years of age when he joined at Keswick on 2 August 1915. His occupation was listed as a Motor Driver and as he stated in a letter written in 1959 :
“before going to war I was Driver and Personal Body Guard to the Hon. The Premier of the day a position I held for 42 years.”
Peter was posted to the 6th Reinforcements 27th Battalion AIF and embarked from Adelaide aboard HMAT A24 Benalla on 27 October 1915. At the end of February 1916 Peter was transferred from 27th Battalion to the 10th Battalion at Serapeum. The 10th Battalion was the unit in which his brother, Charles King , was serving when killed at Gallipoli some 6 months earlier.
On 27 March Peter proceeded to join the British Expeditionary Force in France. He embarked from Alexandria aboard the troopship RMS Saxonia and disembarked at Marseilles six days later.
In May he was admitted sick to the 1st Field Ambulance and the following day admitted to hospital.
At some time “after leaving the firing line I was sent to hospital because I to was blown up by a shell while trying to save Capt. Lynch whom I carried to safety”.
After two weeks Peter was transferred from 10th Battalion and taken on strength of No2 Sanitary Section. A month later, in early June, he was transferred back to 10th Battalion. In late June Peter was transferred from 10th Battalion to 1st Division Supply Column where he was re mustered as a Driver.
During the second half of September Peter suffered from dermatitis to his back and at the end of the month was admitted to hospital and struck off. On 10th September he was invalided to England on the hospital ship HMHS St David, and admitted to the General Military Hospital in Colchester.
In February, 1917 Peter was still in England and temporarily attached for duty with Headquarter AIF Depots from where he was posted to the Australian Motor Transport Section. In September he was promoted to Corporal and fifteen months later in December 1918, while still serving in England, he was promoted to Sergeant.
On 1 July 1919 Peter finally left England for his return to Australia aboard the Frankfurt. He disembarked at Adelaide on the 17th August and was discharged on the 10th October 1919.
Ida and Peter had a second son, Max, born in 1920. In later years Peter became a Justice of the Peace and he and Ida settled in Garland Avenue, Kilburn. Ida pssed away 5 months after Peter.
Biography
The son of Thomas and Mary King of Manoora. Married Ida May Jacka on 27 June 1911. With 2 children, Peter was 28 3/4 years of age when he enlisted at Keswick.
Returned to Australia 1 July 1919
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