BENTLEY, Thorburn
| Service Numbers: | 2190, 1308 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 November 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Fairfield Park, Victoria, Australia, November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Fairfield Park, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Fairfield Park State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 8 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Helles Memorial, Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Helles Memorial, Gallipoli |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2190, 6th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 2 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1308, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1308, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Melbourne | |
| 8 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 2190, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2190 awm_unit: 6th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1915-05-08 |
RIP
Thorburn Bentley, a carpenter from Fairfield Park Victoria, enlisted on 24/11/1914 and was allotted to the 6th Btn AIF. He embarked from Melbourne on HMAT A46 (Clan Macgillivray) on 2/2/1915. Killed in action on Gallipoli 8/5/1915.
Submitted 26 July 2018 by Garry Heafield
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Archibald Bentley and Henrietta Thorburn Bentley nee Mathieson of 8 Rathmine Street, Fairfield Park, Victoria
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in the Victorian Scottish Regiment
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From How We Served
2190 Private Thorburn Bentley of Fairfield, Victoria, had been employed as a carpenter at the time of his enlistment for War Service on the 21st of November 1914.
Allocated to reinforcements to the 6th Battalion, 1st AIF, Thorburn departed Australia bound for Egypt on the 2nd of Feburary,1915.
Following his safe arrival, Thorburn entered into further training before he was embarked for the trenches of Gallipoli.
On the 8th of May 1915 his Battalion was committed to the Second Battle of Krithia, and it was during this failed assault on the Turkish trenches that Thorburn was listed as 'Missing in Action' which was later updated to Killed in Action. He was aged 23 at the time of his death.
Owing to Thorburn lacking any formal place of known burial following the end of the War, as was the case with other members of the 1st AIF who received no known burial in the vicinity of Cape Helles, Thorburn was instead officially commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Cape Helles, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey.
Back home in Australia Thorburn's grieving mother had her son's supreme sacrifice made during the 'Great War' privately memorialised at the Bentley family's collective gravesite within Warringal Cemetery, Victoria.
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