Richard Allan OCKENDEN

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OCKENDEN, Richard Allan

Service Number:	759
Enlisted:	13 November 1914, Oaklands, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Kooringa, South Australia, 22 February 1895
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Blacksmith
Died:	Natural causes, St. Peters, South Australia, 9 February 1960, aged 64 years
Cemetery:	St Martin's Anglican Church Cemetery, Campbelltown, South Australia Commemorated with a plaque in the SA Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Burra District WW1 Honor Roll, Burra Loyal Burra Lodge Court Unity AOF No 3015 WW1 Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

13 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 759, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Oaklands, South Australia
29 Jan 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 759, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: ''
29 Jan 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 759, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Melbourne
22 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 759, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
30 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 759, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Wound to the neck and right forearm (later amputated)
16 May 1916:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 759, 3rd Light Horse Regiment

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Biography

Left forearm amputated due to wounds received at Gallipoli

Biography contributed

Biography written by April Burden Loxton High School, SA attached as a document. Winning entry for 2015 Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize.

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Richard John Jupp Ockenden and Mary Elizabeth Ockenden nee Lampard of Burra, SA.

Next of kin given as his brother Arthur Gordon Ockenden of Southark SA.

Brother of Oliver Henry (Twist) Ockenden who returned to Australia on 10 May 1918 having served with the 50th Battalion; Arthur Gordon Ockenden who returned to Australia on 11 October 1918 having served with the 7th Field Ambulance; Charles Levi Ockenden who returned to Australia on 8 September 1919 having served with the Australian Flying Corps; Harold Ockenden who was killed in action on 7 October 1917 and has no known grave, his name appears on Menin Gate, Ypres, Panel 23; Stanley Leslie Ockenden who returned to Australia on 17 July 1919 having served with the 2nd Tunnelling Company

Commenced return to Austalia on 17 September 1915 aboard HS Beltana as wounded disembarking on 16 October 1915

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

On 15 October 1921 Richard married Lillian Honor White in the Methodist Church, Payneham, SA

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