PAGE, John Joseph Isaac
| Service Number: | 5088 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cobar, New South Wales, Australia, 29 May 1895 |
| Home Town: | Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 5088, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
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| 5 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 5088, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney | |
| 12 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 5088, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 5088 awm_unit: 33rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-12 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
John Joseph Isaac PAGE (Service Number 5088) was born on 29th May 1895 at Cobar. He commenced work with the NSW Government Railways as a temporary junior porter in the Traffic Branch in the Sydney District on 20th February 1914. A month later he was made permanent. He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 28th July 1915.
Page enlisted at Holdsworthy a few weeks later. On his Attestation Papers he stated that his parents were dead, that he was not married, and nominated his sister Francis Ellen Weeks of Surry Hills as his next of kin.
He was initially allocated to the 13th Reinforcements to the 18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Kyarra’ at Sydney on 3rd June 1916, reaching Plymouth on 3rd August. After landing he was soon admitted to Fargo Hospital with pleurisy. He remained there until 9th September. He was not taken on the strength of the 18th Battalion until the end of the month.
When he did proceed overseas to France on 21st November, it was with the 33rd Battalion. In January 1917 he was admitted to the 11th Australian Field Ambulance with an ear infection. This led to transfer to No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station, No. 24 Ambulance Train and No. 1 Convalescent Depot, before he re-joined his unit on 26th January.
Page was killed in Action on 12th October 1917.
Little is known of the location or circumstances of Page’s death. Cpl C W Neal (3433), serving in a different unit, by chance an acquaintance of Page during his time in Cobar, stumbled upon a pocket wallet lying on the ground at Passchendaele, in a railway cutting on the Ypres-Roullers Railway, at a place known as Hillside Farm. Neal recognised photos of Page and other residents of Cobar and sent the wallet to his sister who still lived in Cobar.
Page has no known grave and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.