PROPHITT, Benjamin
| Service Number: | 4368 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glebe, New South Wales, Australia, 11 February 1888 |
| Home Town: | Redfern, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carrier |
| Died: | Waterloo, New South Wales, 12 November 1949, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales PLOT 10; ZONE C 2010 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4368, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4368, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR), Aged 27, Height 5'5", dark complexion (part African-American), good health. NOK is mother Ellen Vaughan of Surry Hills. | |
| 30 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 4368, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Jun 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Hernia. | |
| 12 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4368, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Left England per Armagh. Discharged in Sydney. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Alison Bee
Benjamin Prophitt was born on 11 February 1888 in Surry Hills, NSW, to Ellen Elizabeth Woods, 26, and Benjamin Augustus Prophitt, 48. He had three brothers and five sisters.
Benjamin was part African-American. His father came from Rhode Is, USA and his mother was Australian from Brooklyn, NSW.
He enlisted at the start of WW1 in 1915 and was with the 2nd Battalion to the end of the war in 1919. He worked as a driver and was constantly in hospital with a troubling hernia.
Over the next 20 years, Benjamin worked as a labourer and lived in the Redfern / Surry Hills area. He never married. He died in 1949 aged 61.
Lest We Forget.