SKITCH, Cecil Ernest Lee
| Service Number: | 1893 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 October 1915, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Stockport, South Australia, Australia, 6 March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Malvern, Unley, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Station Book-keeper |
| Died: | Greater London, England, 23 May 1956, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia East Area, Rose Bed E37, Position 36 |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1893, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 11 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 1893, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 1893, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Borda, Adelaide |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
1893 Cecil Ernest Lee SKITCH was born at Stockport, South Australia, on 6 March 1894 and attended school at Millicent before being enrolled at Mount Gambier on 4 October 1909 by his father Ernest William Skitch, primary school teacher and later school inspector, of O’Halloran Terrace, Mount Gambier. He left this school on 31 December 1910. He enlisted in Adelaide on 4 October 1915 (21, station book keeper, single, Church of England) naming his mother, Alice Stitch of Malvern, South Australia, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Borda’ on 11 January 1916 as a reinforcement for the 3rd Light Horse, joined the 1st Light Horse Reserve Regiment in Egypt on 1 March 1916, and was hospitalised with influenza from 14 to 20 March. He was transferred to Artillery Details on 15 May 1916 and embarked from Alexandria on 28 May. He was detailed for duty with Headquarters AIF Depots in England on 19 September 1916, promoted to the rank of ER/Corporal (Records) on 29 August 1917, married Marie Elizabeth Croft at St Faith’s parish church, Stoke Newington, London, on 29 September 1917, hospitalised again with influenza from 8 to 16 October 1917, promoted to ER/Sergeant on 5 November 1917, hospitalised from 2 to 12 March 1918 and again from 13 to 30 April 1918. As a result he was marched out for return to Australia on 24 May 1918, left England from Liverpool on the ‘Essex’ for return to Australia for a change as a result of debility on 4 June 1918, disembarked on 1 August, and was discharged from the AIF on 27 September 1918.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone