JESSOP, Samuel
| Service Number: | 1692 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Katamatite, Victoria, Australia, 23 May 1896 |
| Home Town: | Cobram, Moira, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Katamatite State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 19 July 1916, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cobram Barooga RSL War Memorial, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1692, Depot Battalion | |
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| 16 Jul 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1692, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Jul 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1692, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1692, 59th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1692 awm_unit: 59th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-19 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
1692 Private Samuel Jessop, 59th Battalion AIF, killed in action 19 July, 1916, aged 20. He was the son of George and Rebecca Jessop; husband of Mary Jessop.
Samuel was born in Katamatite but was a Cobram local, and attended school there; he enlisted during April 1915 before he had turned 19 and only 5 months after he had been married to Mary Jessop during December 1914. A daughter he was never to meet was born in 1915.
He went to Gallipoli with the 22nd Battalion on the 29 August 1915, and was evacuated with bronchitis in December 1915. He transferred to the 59th Battalion, another Victorian unit, in April of 1916, and was shipped to France.
On 19 July 1916, the 59th Battalion became embroiled in its first major battle on the Western Front, less than a month after it arrived in France and Samuel fell during the Battle of Fomelles.
He has no known grave; in fact he was officially missing in action for almost 12 months before it was confirmed by the Army that he was killed in action.
In a statement at the enquiry into his death 4962 Pte S.E. Wathen 57th Battalion AIF said that “he saw this soldier killed in his dug-out in first line of trenches at Fromelles, about July 26th 1916. Witness was close to soldier at the time of his death. Jessop was with two other sergeants talking, when a shell exploded and killed all three. Jessop lived about an hour afterwards, but remembered nothing.”
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