WISBEY, John
| Service Number: | 4624 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 November 1916, 3 years Middlesex Volunteers |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | St. Matthew, Cambridge, England, 1866 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner (Australian Agricultural Company (A. A. Company) Sea Pit |
| Died: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 2 April 1942, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-147. 80. |
| Memorials: | Cook's Hill Superior Public School , Merewether Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4624, 30th Infantry Battalion, 3 years Middlesex Volunteers | |
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| 25 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 4624, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 4624, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 3 Jan 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4624, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
A Forgotten Digger who served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
82 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 4th April 1942, Private John William Wisbey, referred to as Jack, 30th Battalion (Reg No-4624), miner (Australian Agricultural Company (A. A. Company) Sea Pit, Bull Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., closed Friday 20.10.1916 due to exhausted reserves), from Berner Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 58 Hickson Street, Merewether, N.S.W., father of two (William N, Eric John), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 75?. ANGLICAN 2-147. 80.
Born at St. Matthew, Cambridge, England about 1865 or 1867 to William and Harriet Wisbey; husband of Ethel Wisbey nee Hookway (married 1897, Merewether, N.S.W., died 28.8.1939, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 68, sleeping here, also Hillary, Anglican Still Birth, 12.8.1924), Jack enlisted on the 6th November 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 25th November 1916.
Commenced return to Australia 26.9.1917.
Jack returned home invalided on the 21st November 1917, being discharged medically unfit (senile debility, overage – 52?) on the 3rd January 1918.
Mr. Wisbey’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates and the Merewether St. Augustine's Church Roll of Honour.
I located this Forgotten Digger resting in an unmarked grave, so August 2022 I placed a cross adorned with poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
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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