CUTTER, Richard
| Service Number: | 770 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1914, Randwick, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst , NSW, 14 June 1865 |
| Home Town: | Parramatta, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Parramatta District Hospital, Parramatta, NSW, 10 September 1944, aged 79 years |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium Zone C Section H Grave 1194 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 770, 1st Infantry Battalion, Randwick, NSW | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 770, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 770, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 15 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 770, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Bomb wound to right leg | |
| 26 Apr 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 770, 1st Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD due to bomb wound to leg on Gallipoli |
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Pte Richard John Cutter
Richard John Cutter was born in 1865 and enlisted in 1914 in the 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Brigade and he served with the 3rd Regiment for 2 years. His unit embarked from Sydney on the 18th of October, 1914, and whilst serving in Gallipoli he suffered a bomb wound to his right leg. Following this, he was deemed medically unfit and returned to Australia.
OLD SOLDIER'S DEATH
Returned soldiers today formed a guard of honor at the graveside In Rookwood Cemetery of Richard John Cutter (72), the first man to enlist in the AIF from Parramatta in 1914. He had then put his age back 15 years. He was severely wounded at Lone Pine.
DICK CUTTER DEAD
FIRST P'MATTA MAN TO
ENLIST IN 1914
Mr. Richard (Dick) John Cutter (72), first matn from Parramatta to enlist in the A.I.F., in 1914, died in Parramatta District Hospital on Sunday. Putting back his age by 15 years, to become one of the glorious band of AnzacS that stormed the beaches at Gallipoli, Cutter was wounded and buried by a shell-burst at Lone Pine, and was invalided home.
He had served his country since the day, towards the end of the last century, when he j6ined the 7th St. George English Rifles, and later transferred to the Third Regiment, Parramatta.
He enlisted' for service in the South African war, but, to his bitter disappointment, did not go overseas. When Hitler set out on his ill-starred attempt at world domination by brute force, "Digger Dick", as he was affectionately known to many, was one of the first to arrive at the Parramatta recruiting depot. "I wanted to have another go to keep the old flag flying," he told an interviewer at that time. But I couldn't get by them this trip." "I have been a soldier all my life, and I thought that, when trouble came again, it was up to me not to back out," he said. "It wasn't because I love war, but, having played the soldier, as well as being the real thing, I felt it was my duty to again try to be there when the call came. I never regretted my service in the last war, and I won't ;until my dying day, because it was a just cause."
District Digger re-unions always welcomed a "turn'" by '''Digger Dick". A natural comedian and a clever clog dancer, his act never failed to bring down the house. Cutters whose home was in Bogalara road, Toongabbie, leaves a widow and one son.
The funeral left the parlors of Metcalfe and Morris Pty. Ltd., yesterday, for the interment in the Church of England Cemetery, 'Rookwood.
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