RAY, Kenneth Gavan
| Service Number: | 4932 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 June 1915, Claremont, Tas. |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 13th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Carpenter |
| Died: | Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 4 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4932, 1st Australian General Hospital, Claremont, Tas. | |
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| 17 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 4932, 1st Australian General Hospital, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 4932, 1st Australian General Hospital, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 17 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 13th Field Company Engineers, Egypt. Several brothers also served in this unit. | |
| 4 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 4932, 13th Field Company Engineers, Mouquet Farm, Killed in action |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
He was obviously very popular within the 13th Engineers as the following moving notice was placed in “The Mercury Newspaper” by his friends in the Company
"RAY. -In Memoriam of K. G. Ray, killed in action, August 4 at Pozieres. Where the trees are torn and dying, And the battle planes are flying, Where the star shells split the darkness, He is sleeping peacefully; and the howitzers' loud screaming shall not wake him from his dreaming, Where the hearts of men are tested in that hell at Picardy. Nobly did he stand the testing, Now forever he is resting, Where the shrapnel shall not find him, And he cannot see the flares ;Deep his sleep, but great his glory, Brief is his immortal story
"Only say I fought for freedom In the trenches at Pozieres."
Inserted by his comrades of the 13th Engineers."
The Mercury 2nd January 1917
Source: tasmanianwarcasualties.com
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