TREGARTHEN, Mark Elmer
| Service Number: | 20693 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 July 1917, Sydney |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 15th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, 27 September 1897 |
| Home Town: | Bellevue Hill, Woollahra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Grammar School, Sydney University |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Sydney, 29 May 1972, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW |
| Memorials: | Darlinghurst St John's Anglican Church Honour Board, Double Bay War Memorial, Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 20693, Field Company Engineers, Sydney | |
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| 16 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 20693, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Canberra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 16 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 20693, Field Company Engineers, SS Canberra, Sydney | |
| 25 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 20693, 15th Field Company Engineers |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Mark Elmer TREGARTHEN was born on 27th September 1897 in Woollahra, Sydney
His parents were Greville Phillips TREGARTHEN and Helen Mary MANNING who married in Sydney in 1888
He was an engineering student at Sydney University when he enlisted for WW1 on 23rd July, 1917 and embarked from Sydney on 16th November, 1917 with the October 1917 reinforcements on the ship HMT Canberra
He served in the last advance and until demobilisation & returned to Australia on 9th May, 1919 on the ship Kashmir and was discharged on 25th May, 1919
He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal
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In 1921 Mark received his Bachelor of Engineering at Sydney University
In 1935 he married Jean M. McKENZIE - 1 known child , Hugh
Mark died on 29th May, 1972 in Sydney - late retired Engineers of Double Bay.
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His brother Hugh TREGARTHEN (SN6313) was an Able Seaman in WW2 with the Royal Australian Navy . Sadly he died on 6th February, 1918 in a submarine accident in the Mediterranean.
RAN - Ship SS Glenartney
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