LANFEAR, Cyril Roy
| Service Number: | 163 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Second Class Air Mechanic |
| Last Unit: | Australian Flying Corps (AFC) |
| Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, 2 May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Coonamble, Coonamble, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station hand |
| Died: | Natural causes, Randwick, New South Wales, 27 April 1939, aged 44 years |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 163, Liverpool, New South Wales | |
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| 13 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 163, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 13 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 163, 12th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 163, 1st Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 22 Feb 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 12th Light Horse Regiment, Reabsorbed from 1 L.H.Regt. | |
| 18 Dec 1916: | Transferred Second Class Air Mechanic, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps | |
| 23 Dec 1919: | Discharged Second Class Air Mechanic, 163, Australian Flying Corps (AFC) |
Diary entries of a fellow Trooper
The following are excerpts from the diary of M.J.S. Harrigan, who served alongside in both "A" Squadron 12th Lighthorse, and later in No.2 Squadron Australian Flying Corps. Lanfear and Lanfier both appear in the service record, and based on diary entries he used both over the course of the war.
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Tuesday 31 August 1915
(1st Light Horse Regiment, near POPE'S RESERVE, ANZAC)
Had a good night sleep. We live well on boiled bully beef and biscuits with onions boiled together. Belfield, Bone, Lanfier and Thornton comprise my section. Hymdus machine gun got into action today belonging to the 12th. I heard that Major McIntosh and Captain D’Arcy of B Squadron were wounded last night. Tremendous battle raged on the left all this evening.
Monday 8 November 1915
(1st Light Horse Regiment, near No.1 OUTPOST, ANZAC)
We returned to our lines at 4.30 this morning. We were pretty close to the Turks, could hear them talking. I was Corporal with 3 men, Colless, Cameron and Keogh and my first trip out. Fleas were bad. Spent a quiet day. Lanfier went to hospital today with jaundice.
Tuesday 18 January 1916
(A Squadron, 1st Reserve Regiment)
Captain Stuckie took us for a gallop abroard then we returned for breakfast. We were busy all day on troop drill etc, fatigues etc and at night Cameron and I went to Heliopolis and watched the pictures at the Heliopolis Hotel and sipped port wine also Hollingworth and Lanfier.
Thursday 5 October 1916
(12th Light Horse Regiment, MAGEIBRA, SINAI PENINSULA)
Up at 4, stand to arms at 5 and 2 troops ride out to rear of camp for reconnaissance for one hour then return and feed up and have breakfast, then we water up. The horses do not drink too well. Put Lanfear under open arrest during the day for breaking camp. There is a poverty stricken oasis here near the wells and we are camped on the ridge the camel corps and 11 held from 4,000 Turks last month. The Turks held the reposte ridge to the east and lost a lot. We put two machine guns on the right flank and cut them up. It was an unexpected meeting. Took some photos of beyond camp.
Saturday 2 February 1918
(No.2 Squadron, A.F.C., FRANCE)
Very heavy frost, a warm breeze came up from the south and settled the cold, so in turn everything became sloppy. It is just about 12 months ago since we arrived in England. Tabby Pflaum was over here from the 71st Squadron, this last day or two but I did not get to talk to him. Patrols were out today and Frank Power did not return by dark. All the new cadets paraded before the colonel today. Hancock, McLeod, Lanfear, Fenwick, Barrell, Williams, “Red” Bacon, Bissett, Mitchell, Curley Pathe. I stay in camp tonight.
Submitted 1 September 2018 by James McQualter
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