Linton Percy Clarence RUDD

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RUDD, Linton Percy Clarence

Service Number:	185
Enlisted:	24 October 1914
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	7th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Hay, New South Wales, Australia, 23 December 1885
Home Town:	Narellan, Camden, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Wyong, New South Wales, Australia, 20 June 1969, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-210. 52.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

24 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 185, 7th Light Horse Regiment
20 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 185, 7th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ayrshire embarkation_ship_number: A33 public_note: ''
20 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 185, 7th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Ayrshire, Sydney
6 Sep 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 185, 7th Light Horse Regiment, medically unfit
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Trooper, 185, 7th Light Horse Regiment

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

An Original Anzac who served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

56 years ago today, on the 20th June 1969, Private Linton Percy Clarence Rudd, 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Reg No-185), labourer and clerk from Narellan, New South Wales and 43 Hereford Avenue, Trinity Gardens, Adelaide, South Australia (1942) and 2 Clarence Road, New Lambton, N.S.W. (1967) and Wyong?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 84. ANGLICAN 3-210. 52.

Born at Hay, New South Wales on the 23rd December 1884 to William, died 31.8.1890, Harrington Park, Narellan, N.S.W., age 50, buried at St. Peters Anglican Church Cemetery, Campbelltown, N.S.W., from Howlong Station, N.S.W., and Susannah Rudd nee Craft, died 6.12.1915, Marrickville Hospital, N.S.W., age 72, mother of 8?, sleeping at Rookwood General Cemetery, N.S.W., from Howlong Station, N.S.W. and 531 Illawarra Road, Marrickville, N.S.W.; husband of Ada Amelia Rudd nee Berry, married 29.6.1938, district unknown, died 30.4.1962, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 69, sleeping here, Linton enlisted on the 20th October 1914 at Holsworthy, N.S.W.

Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A33 Ayrshire on the 20th December 1914.
Admitted to hospital 12.9.1915 (influenza), 24.10.1915 (rheumatism).

Embarked for England 15.10.1915.

Commenced return to Australia 8.5.1916.

Linton arrived home invalided on the 19th June 1916 (cardiac deletion), being discharged medically unfit on the 6th September 1916.

Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, returning home, etc.

Mr. Rudd’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Linton’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Also served 2nd A.I.F., enlisted 2.4.1942, Adelaide, South Australia, Service No-S69574, "A" Coy, 3rd Battalion, V. D. C., Sergeant, discharged 3.10.1945.
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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