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ROUTLEDGE, John Hendry
| Service Number: | 55881 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Seaton, South Australia, 16 March 1897 |
| Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hardware Assistant |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 24 September 1941, aged 44 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jun 1918: | Involvement Private, 55881, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 5 Jun 1918: | Embarked Private, 55881, 1st to 6th (SA) Reinforcements, RMS Orontes, Sydney | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 55881, 32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by St Ignatius' College
John Hendry Routledge was born in March 1897 and was raised by his parents John Routledge and Mary Henderson in the district of Port Adelaide. When he got older, he got a job as a hardware assistant and eventually joined the military service in the 77th infantry. He was still very young at this age as, when he was 21, he enlisted to go to join the ANZACS in World War 1 on the 19th March 1918.
After John enlisted, he was assigned to the 32nd battalion and shipped to train at Blackboy Hill Training camp in Greenmount, Western Australia. Here he went under basic training to learn marching, drilling, musketry and other basic skills that are needed for the front lines. It is said that those trained at Blackboy Hill are some of the toughest soldiers in Australia and New Zealand, so the training must have been harsh.
He was then shipped to war from Sydney on the RMS Orontes with his battalion, which was part of the 2nd South Australian General Reinforcements on the 5th June 1918. H
John survived and was able to return home and come back to his mother. He continued to live his life as a respected war veteran and may have gone back to his job as a hardware assistant. He eventually got married to a woman named Kathleen Grace Dalwood and they lived together until John died at a relatively young age of 43 on the 24th September 1941 just 21 years after the war due to unknown causes.
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