KURING, Herman August
| Service Numbers: | 626, W242886 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Major |
| Last Unit: | 10 Garrison Battalion (WA) |
| Born: | Ullina Hepburn Shire Victoria, Australia, 15 March 1895 |
| Home Town: | Carisbrook, Central Goldfields, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Accidental (Drowning), Australia, 3 September 1941, aged 46 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" At Sea, Unknown |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Smeaton State School No 552, State School Ullina No 763 Roll of Honor, Sydney Memorial (Sydney War Cemetery) Rookwood |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 626, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Sergeant, 626, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Sergeant, 626, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
| 28 Apr 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Major, 59th Infantry Battalion |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Major, W242886, 10 Garrison Battalion (WA) | |
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| 9 Oct 1939: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, W242886 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Born March 15, 1895
Ullina
Hepburn Shire
Victoria, Australia
Lieutenant Colonel Kuring served with the Australian Imperial Force, 10th Garrison Bn of the Australian Infantry~Service No:W242886. He was 46 and as at February 2018 is commemorated on the Virtual Cemetery, The Australian Book of Remembrance maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Northern Times, Carnarvon, W.A. – Saturday, 1 November 1941.
“WINDS OF DEATH.
Rottnest Island Tragedy.
Until the body of Lieutenant Colonel Hermann August Kuring,
commanding officer of the 10th Garrison Battalion at Rottnest Island, is recovered, there can be no inquest.
Probably the military will hold an inquiry, and in due course death can be legally presumed by the relatives.
The mystery of the Colonel's disappearance is not so strange to those who know the popular island, and understand the strength of the winds that have been blowing along the coast in that region during recent weeks.
Several minor accidents have occurred along the Fremantle coastline during September. Only last week a man working on a ladder at a southern resort was caught by a sudden gust of wind, and had he not providentially grabbed the building spouting as he was lifted from his feet, he would have sustained more than bruises in the
subsequent fall.
WINDS OF DEATH.
It was a squally day when Colonel Kuring made his inspection of certain works in the vicinity whence he disappeared.
He was probably walking in a moderate gale one minute, and within a second or two was caught by one of those sudden and overwhelming bursts for which the September winds on the island have become famous, or infamous and, if at that moment, his balance was insecure and he had nothing to lay quick hold of, it would have been simple for him to have toppled from his foothold. The jagged cliffs and the lashing waters would do the rest. The
tendency of the currents would have been to eddy his body away to sea, in which event it is possible that his remains will never be recovered. His unconscious, physical end, in those circumstances, would have been painless.”
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