TRUSCOTT, Llewellyn Gilbert
| Service Number: | 3472 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 January 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 2 January 1884 |
| Home Town: | Darlinghurst, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Suicide, Botany Golf Links, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 27 January 1936, aged 52 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW BAPTIST-ANW. 27. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3472, 53rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3472, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3472, 53rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney | |
| 29 Jul 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3472, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Remained on duty | |
| 30 Sep 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3472, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal, GSW to face | |
| 5 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3472, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
The tragic end for a Forgotten Digger of The Great War resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
86 years ago today, on the 28th January 1936, Private Llewellyn (Lyn) Gilbert Truscott, 53rd Battalion (Reg No-3472), miner from 32 Womerah Avenue, Darlinghurst, New South Wales and Newnes, N.S.W., father of two (Lyn G, Matilda), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 52. BAPTIST-ANW. 27.
No funeral or death notice located.
Born at Hamilton, New South Wales on the 2nd January 1884 to Edwin and Matilda (died 1906) Truscott nee Maguire; husband of Grace Agnes Truscott nee Hollaway (married 1913, Melbourne, VIC, died?) of Horse Shoe Hotel, Carlton, Victoria, Lyn enlisted January 1917 at Victoria Barracks, N.S.W.
Wounded in action - 29.7.1918 (not stated, remained on duty), 30.9.1918 (GSW face, severe).
Lyn was known as an ex-champion boxing Lightweight of Australia.
Lyn was invalided home March 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 5th April 1919.
Younger brother Lewis Septimus (2nd Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, Reg No-952, Lieutenant, born 1895, died 1969, East Maitland, N.S.W. of 2 Railway Street, Wickham, N.S.W.) also served 1st A.I.F.
Brother Lewis name inscribed on the Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour. Lyn's name not located inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
The tragic circumstances of Lyn’s death were reported. as suicide at Botany Golf Links, Sydney, NSW. He had been suffering memory loss as a result of WWI and/or from his career as a boxer.
There is no headstone at the Truscott gravesites to tell us that Lyn is resting here, another Forgotten Digger of The Great War, so January 2022 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
I submitted an application to DVA January 2022 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the gravesite to restore Honour and Dignity to Lyn.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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