CADOUX, Donald Neville
| Service Number: | 201 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1914, Blackboy Hill |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Countesthorpe, Leicestershire, England, 27 June 1884 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engineer and Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 3 May 1915, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" He is commemorated on the LONE PINE MEMORIAL at Panel 69. , Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 201, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Blackboy Hill | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Private, 201, 3rd Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Private, 201, 3rd Field Ambulance, HMAT Medic, Fremantle | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 201, 3rd Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 3 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 201, 3rd Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Sep 1884 Donald Neville Cadoux Blaby 7a 36
Countesthorpe is a large village and civil parish in the Leicestershire district of Blaby. It lies to the south of Leicester, and is about six miles from the city centre, but only two miles south of the suburb of South Wigston.
1901 census
Charles Cadoux Head 57 Wethersfield, Essex
Susan Cadoux Wife 52 Leicester
Donald N Cadoux Son 16 Countesthorpe, Leicestershire- [APPRENTICE TO GAS ENGINEERS]
Barton S T Cadoux Son 14 Countesthorpe, Leicestershire
Vera C Cadoux Daughter 9 South Wigston, Leicestershire.
He served for 3 years (as Corporal) in 1st Volunteer Bn, Leicester Regiment; 1 year in 2nd Volunteer Bn, Gloucester Regiment: in both cases resigned.
Australia, Victoria Coastal Passenger Lists, 1852-1924
Event Type: Emigration
Event Date: 9 Feb 1912
Event Place: Victoria, Australia
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Marital Status: single
Departure Port: Burnie
Arrival Year: 1912
Arrival Port: Melbourne
Ship Name: Loongana
He was a son of Charles and Susan Cadoux of Woodland Avenue, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. Donald is remembered on their grave in Thorpe Road Cemetery, Melton Mowbray, Melton Borough, Leicestershire, England
Enlistment date 21 August 1914
Place of enlistment Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
3rd Field Ambulance, C Squadron.
Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A7 Medic on 2 November 1914. Age at embarkation 30.
He then embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (Gallipoli Campaign), 2 March 1915.
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli
Unusually, although he was Killed in Action [at the Dardanelles], he was buried at sea off Gallipoli, from SS 'Gascon'-hence he is commemorated on the LONE PINE MEMORIAL at Panel 69.
There is some doubt about the date he died-it could have been Sunday 25th April 1915
The landing at Anzac Cove on Sunday, 25 April 1915, also known as the landing at Gaba Tepe, and to the Turks as the Arıburnu Battle, was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the forces of the British Empire, which began the land phase of the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.
Results: Inconclusive, Allied forces established a beachhead, Turkish Army temporarily halted further progress.
His elder brother, Private Charles Basil Cadoux, Service Number 1328, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement served with the AIF and returned to Australia on 13 February 1917
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