John Albert DEMPSEY

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DEMPSEY, John Albert

Service Number:	1282
Enlisted:	24 September 1915
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer Class 2
Last Unit:	2nd Australian Remount Unit
Born:	Gingelie, New South Wales, Australia, October 1885
Home Town:	Leeton, Leeton, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Horse breaker
Died:	Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales, Australia , 10 March 1950, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Narrandera War Cemetery, New South Wales
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World War 1 Service

24 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit
10 Nov 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
10 Nov 1915:	Embarked Trooper, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, HMAT Orsova, Sydney
11 Jan 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2nd Australian Remount Unit
13 Oct 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Squadron Sergeant Major, 2nd Australian Remount Unit
24 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Warrant Officer Class 2, 1282, 2nd Australian Remount Unit, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

AWM Summary (adapted)

John Albert Dempsey, known as 'Jack'. Dempsey was a horse breaker from Leeton, NSW and he served with the 2nd Remount Unit. Sergeant-Major Jack Dempsey directed the work of the rough-riders, under the command of Major Paterson, who described him as "a six-foot-two Australian, straight as a stringy-bark sapling and equally as tough.... He put his living into riding buckjumpers in shows in Australia, and he can tell an outlaw through a galvanised iron fence" (A.B. Paterson, happy dispatches, pp. 181-82).

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