GARVEN, Austin Vincent
| Service Number: | 443 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 11 October 1898 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Pastry cook |
| Died: | War related illness, Newcastle West, New South Wales, Australia, 5 February 1918, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-75. 17. |
| Memorials: | Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 443, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 443, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 443, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 14 Sep 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 443, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
103 years ago today, on the 7th February 1918, Private Austin Vincent Garven, 35th Battalion (Reg No-443), pastry cook from "Leixlip", 13 Nott Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 22 Dumaresq Street, Newcastle West, N.S.W., was laid to rest with a military funeral at Sandgate Cemetery, age 20. ANGLICAN 1-75. 17.
Born at Hamilton, New South Wales on the 11th October 1897 (as GARREN) to James and Annie Elizabeth Garven nee Chapman (Rose Caroline Garven, Stepmother), Austin enlisted January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 10.6.1916 (bronchitis), Austin was invalided home August 1916 and was discharged medically unfit with bronchial cystitis on the 14th September 1916. Reported an Patient at military hospital, Sydney.
Mr Garven’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates (photos, unveiled on the 12th March 1921, 335 names now inscribed, 44 Fallen) and the Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor.
For 98 years Austin had not been resting peacefully in an unmarked grave, forgotten, so October 2016 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at Austin’s gravesite submitted January 2021. Decision still pending.
Older brother Raymond Horace (13th Battalion, Reg No-2602, born 1894, died 1968, Belmont, N.S.W.) also served 1st A.I.F.
Lest We Forget.
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