CALTHORPE, John
| Service Number: | 5515 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Motor Transport Company |
| Born: | Port Chalmers, New Zealand, November 1887 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer and coal trimmer |
| Died: | Carrington, New South Wales, Australia, 3 July 1937, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-67. 110. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 2 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5515, Tunnelling Companies | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5515, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 5515, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 12 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5515, 2nd Motor Transport Company, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
87 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 4th July 1937, Private John George Colthorpe, referred to as Jack, 2nd Australian Auxiliary Motor Transport Company (Reg No-5515), labourer and coal trimmer from Little Gipps Street, Carrington, New South Wales and 64 Mathieson Street, Carrington, N.S.W., father of one (Joan), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 49. ANGLICAN 1-67. 110.
Born at Port Chalmers, New Zealand about 1888 to Charles Robert and Ellen Tully Colthorpe; husband of Lillian (Lily) Frances H Colthorpe nee Hughes, married 1915, Wickham, N.S.W., died 23.7.1922, Newcastle Hospital, N.S.W., age 32, sleeping here, Jack enlisted on the 2nd May 1916 with the Tunnelling Companies, October 1916 Reinforcements, at Lambton, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on the 25th October 1916.
Admitted to hospital 21.8.1917 (vomiting & diarrhoea).
Granted leave to England 21.7.1918 to 6.8.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 5.3.1919.
Jack arrived home on the 23rd April 1919, being discharged on the 12th July 1919.
Mr. Colthorpe’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates and the Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor, as CALTHORP.
I have placed poppies at Jack’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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