RUSSELL, Richard
| Service Number: | 4793 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Inverness, Ross-shire, Scotland., date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Camboon, Banana, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 24 October 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31. , Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 4793, 31st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 4793, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
31st Bn., 13th Reinforcement, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 30 and the son of Alexander and and Elizabeth Russell, of Ruallan Cawdor, Nairn, Scotland. Native of Inverness, Ross-shire.
His brother fell whilst serving with British Forces. He was Private Thomas Russell-Service Number 16927-Died 22/02/1918-2nd Bn.Scots Guards. Interred: LEVEL CROSSING CEMETERY, FAMPOUXII. B. 24.
Richard i[and his brother,] are remembered on the Cawdor cairn war memorial along with two other Australian soldiers of the Great War- John MacPherson and Duncan Dan McLeod.
Enlistment date 17 November 1916
Age at embarkation 28
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/48/4.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 7 February 1917.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
There is a Private Donald Russell Australians listed on the Parish of Cawdor panel of the Nairn War Memorial but this is almost certainly Private Richard Russell. He is also honoured on the Cawdor United Free Church War Memorial as one of the congregation who fell………..he is remembered along with his brother, Thomas both of Ruallan.
FOR GOD, KING & COUNTRY MEN BELONGING TO THE CONGREGATION OF CAWDOR UNITED FREE CHURCH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1919
DONALD RUSSELL RUALLAN THOMAS RUSSELL RUALLAN
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