SEABROOK, Eric Charles
| Service Number: | 2278 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 52nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 8 January 1893 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Queens College, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Orchardist |
| Died: | Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 September 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glen Huon HR, Glen Huon War Memorial, Hobart Roll of Honour, Hobart Swan Street Methodist Church and Sunday School Pictorial Honour Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 25 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2278, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 2278, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 2278, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Fremantle | |
| 4 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 2278, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2278 awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The son of Alfred Charles and Harriet Emma Seabrook of Hobart, Tasmania. His brother 107 Sapper Walter Waldo Seabrook 1st Division Engineers was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal during the war.
Their father, Alfred, would later be a member of the Australian House of Representatives for Franklin from 1922 to 1928.
Private Eric Seabrook served on Gallipoli from August 1915 and transferred to the 52nd Battalion in Egypt. He was reported missing for some weeks after the fighting at Mouquet Farm in France and was reported in the newspapers to have been killed in a trench by a high explosive shell on 3rd September 1916. Private Seabrook and several of his mates were killed by a couple of shells and a number of other soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident.
Eric was reported to be a promising young fellow and was well known and respected in Hobart and the Huon. He played in district A grade cricket in Hobart and was a valued member of the Glen Huon team.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The son of Alfred Charles and Harriet Emma Seabrook of Hobart, Tasmania. His brother 107 Sapper Walter Waldo Seabrook 1st Division Engineers was awarded a Meritorious Service Medal during the war.
Their father, Alfred, would later be a member of the Australian House of Representatives for Franklin from 1922 to 1928.
Private Eric Seabrook served on Gallipoli from August 1915 and transferred to the 52nd Battalion in Egypt. He was reported missing for some weeks after the fighting at Mouquet Farm in France and was reported in the newspapers to have been killed in a trench by a high explosive shell on 3rd September 1916. Private Seabrook and several of his mates were killed by a couple of shells and a number of other soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident.
Eric was reported to be a promising young fellow and was well known and respected in Hobart and the Huon. He played in district A grade cricket in Hobart and was a valued member of the Glen Huon team.
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