CROPPER, John William
| Service Number: | 1924 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 18 October 1876 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Pneumonia, France, 9 April 1916, aged 39 years |
| Cemetery: |
Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, France Plot IV, Row A, Grave No. 28 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kalgoorlie St John's Anglican Church Honour Roll, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Lambton Fallen Soldiers HR |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1924, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1924, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1924, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Fremantle | |
| 9 Apr 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1924, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1924 awm_unit: 11 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-04-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 9th April 1916, Lance Corporal John William Cropper, referred to as Jack, 11th Battalion (Reg No-1924), miner from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Died of Disease (pneumonia) at the 2nd Lahore British General Hospital, Marseilles, France, age-39 Years 5 Months.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 18th October 1876 to Amos (died 24.10.1929, 28 Elder Street, Lambton, N.S.W., age 86, buried at ANGLICAN 2-144. 27, no memorial inscription), from 1531 Oberthur Street, South Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and 28 Elder Street, Lambton, New South Wales, and Isabella (Bella) Cropper (died 21.12.1916, Kalgoorlie Hospital, W.A., age 65, sleeping at Kalgoorlie Cemetery), from 1531 Oberthur Street, South Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Jack enlisted on the 28th January 1915 at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 26th April 1915.
Appointed Lance Corporal 1.2.1916.
Admitted to hospital 5.4.1916 (pneumonia, seriously ill).
Received all 3 War Medals.
Mr. Cropper is resting at Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, France. Plot IV Row A Grave 28.
Place of Association – Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Jack’s name has been inscribed on the Kalgoorlie St John's Anglican Church Honour Roll, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial and the Lambton Ladies Anzac Club Roll of Honor, also called the Lambton Post Office Roll of Honor and the Lambton Fallen Soldiers Honour Roll.
Unfortunately, there is no memorial inscription on the headstone plaque at the gravesite of father Amos to tell us of the loss of his son during The Great War, and I am unable to erect a Memorial cross, so I placed poppies in remembrance of Jack’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 2-144. 27.
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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