WEINGOTT, Barron
| Service Number: | 7741 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 1st Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 September 1896 |
| Home Town: | Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station hand |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 9 July 1970, aged 73 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Zone G Section 21 Grave 749 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 7741, 1st Field Company Engineers | |
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| 14 Apr 1916: | Involvement Driver, 7741, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 14 Apr 1916: | Embarked Driver, 7741, 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Barron Weingott was known as ‘Barry’ to his friends and family. He enlisted in late January 1916, at 20 years age, knowing that he had lost two brothers, both died of wounds, not long after the Anzacs landed on Gallipoli.
His father, Harris Weingott, wrote a letter to the recruiting officers a few days after his enlistment,
“Dear Sir,
I am given to understand that my Son, BARRY WEINGOTT, has just enlisted for service and has been accepted by the Board of Health subject to Inoculation.
I wish, however, to inform you that he is under the age of 21, and that he should have first obtained his Father’s consent. You will possibly know that I have already lost two Sons at the landing at Gallipoli, and it breaks my heart to give my consent for another boy to leave for the front. As however he appears determined to go I will not withhold my consent and will have to sign any papers that are necessary.
Yours Faithfully, H. Weingott”
Barry Weingott served with the 1st Field Company Engineers in France and returned to Australia during 1919. He married in 1922 and raised three children.
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