KERSHAW, Raymond Newton
| Service Number: | 248 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1916, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Wahroonga, NSW, 3 May 1898 |
| Home Town: | Wahroonga, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Boys High School; Gordon Public School; Sydney University |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Berkshire, England, 28 March 1981, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 248, 5th Machine Gun Company, Sydney, NSW | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 248, 5th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 248, 5th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 12 Feb 1919: | Honoured Military Cross, 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack. Though early wounded, he brought his two guns forward to a good position, and continued to do good work with them until obliged by his wound to hand over and go to the regimental post. He showed great pluck and coolness.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 23 |
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RHODES SCHOLAR.
LIEUT. R. N. KERSHAW, M.C.,
SELECTED.
At a meeting of the Rhodes Scholarship selection committee, resided over by his Excellency Sir Walter Davidson, held at Government House yesterday, Lieut. Raymond Newton Kershaw, M.C., was appointed to the Rhodes Scholarship for the year 1918.
Lieut. Kershaw, who is the younger son of Mr. G. W. Kershaw, the well-known rose specialist, and of Mrs. Kershaw, of Billyard avenue, Wahroonga, was born on May 3, 1898, at Wahroonga, and received his early education at the Gordon Public School. For four years he was trained at the Sydney Boys' High School, and entered the University in March, 1915, gaining the first place at the leaving certificate examination in French, and the fourth place in English, Latin, and history of all the candidates. He completed his first year in December, 1915, gaining high distinction in history and philosophy and the first place in English in the pass list. He then enlisted (in 1916) for active military service, returning at the beginning of this academic year, having gained a Military Cross for bravery as a machine-gun officer at Villers Bretonneux.
Under the regulations for the 1918 scholarship, to which he has been appointed, he will be required to go into residence at Oxford in January of next year. A further election will be held in October for the year 1919 scholar, who will be expected to go into residence in October of next year. The selection committee consists of the Governor of New South Wales in his private capacity as chairman; the Chief Justice of New South Wales, represented on this occasion by Mr. Justice Pring; the Chancellor of the University (Sir W. P. Cullen), the Vice Chancellor (Mr. Justice Ferguson), and the
chairman of the Professorial Board (Professor J. T. Wilson).
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