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SHORTRIDGE, Ivan
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 169 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Albert Park, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 11 June 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Borre British Cemetery Borre British Cemetery, Hazebrouck, Nord Pas de Calais, France, Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 21 Oct 1914: | Involvement Sapper, 169, 2nd Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: '' | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 1914: | Embarked Sapper, 169, 2nd Field Company Engineers, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne | |
| 11 Jun 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 169, 2nd Field Company Engineers, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 169 awm_unit: 2nd Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-06-11 |
Personal Stories
Finding a soldier from postcards he sent home from Cairo
I bought a booklet of postcards at a market in Melbourne, to add to my collection of Egyptian postcards. Most of the postcards I collect do not have writing on them, but these did. The words were poignant and captured experiences which must have been similar for many soldiers. I wondered who this man was and what happened to him, especially as my grandfather was also in Egypt with the army in 1914/15.
This is the story of finding out what happened to the soldier who wrote those words:
https://siwasoul.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/mystery-of-the-australian-soldier-in-cairo-1914/
Submitted 9 July 2021 by Susan Ryan
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